Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A singing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A singing.
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- noun obsolete A
singing .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He set down I the cup, held his hand up again, and repeated his in -! cantation.
Out of Phaze Anthony, Piers 1987
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He set down I the cup, held his hand up again, and repeated his in -! cantation.
Out of Phaze Anthony, Piers 1987
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Whether or not there was any mystic virtue in the exorcisory cantation of the previous night I cannot determine; but it is certain that, next morning, though headaches abounded among our officers, indications of the yellow fever there were none.
Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820
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Your Lord and Master did well to make his re-cantation.
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Off the hook man it was spooky watching the nueances and similarities to a young Bob Dylan in this paticular cantation of Jacobs band, Alot of Springsteen similarities as well it was like a cross between Bob and Bruce on a hillbilly highway.
Expecting Rain 2008
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Off the hook man it was spooky watching the nueances and similarities to a young Bob Dylan in this paticular cantation of Jacobs band, Alot of Springsteen similarities as well it was like a cross between Bob and Bruce on a hillbilly highway.
Expecting Rain 2008
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My offences are not to be redeemed by re - cantation or repentance.
Junius 1797
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24 To name is to see the "soul of the thing," to hear the "pre-cantation," of the sea, the mountain ridge, Niagara.
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