Antiphon

/ˈæntɪfən/

Synonyms for "antiphon" (75 found)

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Noun(1 words)

Strong matches (23)

Noun(2 words)
chantliturgical refrain

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Noun(1 words)

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chantchurch musicliturgical chantliturgical textreligious music

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concluding antiphonintroductory antiphonproper antiphonpsalm antiphonseasonal antiphonvespers antiphon

Collocations

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antiphonal chantantiphonary manuscriptconcluding antiphonintroductory antiphonliturgical refrainpsalm antiphon

Inflections

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Derivations

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Sample sentences

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The old antiphon came back.

Source: tatoeba (4877388)

Father Vaillant came back in his vestments, with his pyx and basin of holy water, and began sprinkling the bed and the watchers, repeating the antiphon, Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo, et mundabor.

Source: wiktionary

The Clown […] says: ‘And so we wept; and there was the first gentleman-like tears that ever we shed’; to which his father, the Shepherd, adds the comfortable antiphon, ‘We may live, son, to shed many more.’

Source: wiktionary

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