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  • noun A book of psalms.

Etymologies

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psalm +‎ book

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Examples

  • A page from Henry VIII's personal psalmbook shows the rotund British monarch styled as King David.

    The Sacred History 2007

  • Jamie rubbed a knuckle over his upper lip, torn now between amusement and dismay at the thought of Hiram Crombie invading the Cherokee villages, psalmbook in hand.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • The ridicule heaped upon Sternhold and Hopkins's psalmbook has always stopped, and sobered into admiration and even reverence at the two stanzas beginning with this leading line --

    The Story of the Hymns and Tunes Theron Brown 1873

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