Chaunt

Word CHAUNT
Character 6
Hyphenation chaunt
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Chaunt"

What do we mean by chaunt?

See chant. noun

See chant.

Obsolete spelling of chant. noun

Obsolete spelling of chant. verb

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The word "chaunt" in example sentences

It is a charming picture, and one would like to know more about that "chaunt," that "wild melody." ❋ Unknown (1881)

"I let you 'chaunt', as you call it, to keep you from swearing." ❋ George Meredith (1868)

So she struck the strings and began to chaunt these lines, ❋ Unknown (2006)

The Religious getting up at that Hour, going through the Cloyster to their Church, to chaunt Mattins, they found this young Gentlewoman sprawling in the midst of the Cloyster, almost dead with the Fall: They took her up, and put her into a warm Bed, let her blood, and apply'd all other ❋ Unknown (2008)

That chapel, once a religious sanctuary, when the choral hymn ascended in solemn chaunt to the pealing strains of the organ, with fervent devotion, was now degraded into ❋ Unknown (2008)

First then for thee we sisters must chaunt our dirge, and then for Achilles when ❋ Unknown (2008)

The birds warbled on the boughs with tones far sweeter than chaunt of Koran and their notes would console a lover whom longings unman. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Mr. Bucket receives the harmonious impeachment so modestly, confessing how that he did once chaunt a little, for the expression of the feelings of his own bosom, and with no presumptuous idea of entertaining his friends, that he is asked to sing. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It has a ghostly sound too, lingering within the altar; where it seems to chaunt, in its wild way, of Wrong and Murder done, and false Gods worshipped, in defiance of the Tables of the Law, which look so fair and smooth, but are so flawed and broken. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The man was never brought down, however, nor the ladder; for it performed the strangest antics in the world among the crowd — where it was carried by the man, when the candles were all lighted; and finally it was stuck up against the gallery wall, in a very disorderly manner, just before the opening of the other chapel, and the commencement of a new chaunt, announced the approach of his Holiness. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Not so the worshippers within, who were listening to the same drowsy chaunt, or kneeling before the same kinds of images and tapers, or whispering, with their heads bowed down, in the selfsame dark confessionals, as I had left in Genoa and everywhere else. ❋ Unknown (2007)

“Hark! to that chaunt!” said the Marchesa, in a trembling voice; “it is a first requiem; the soul has but just quitted the body!” ❋ Unknown (2004)

Church: It was Illuminated, and the chaunt of Hymns sounded from a distance. ❋ Unknown (2004)

As He stood in hesitation, He heard the melancholy shriek of the screech-Owl: The wind rattled loudly against the windows of the adjacent Convent, and as the current swept by him, bore with it the faint notes of the chaunt of ❋ Unknown (2004)

Some one from above had let down a rope, and hauled her up by it; she remained one night, and on her return, gave a description of what she had seen in a chaunt, or song, which he sung for me, but of the meaning of which I could make out nothing. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The circumstance struck him; he knew it was usual in some parts of Italy to chaunt this strain over the bed of the dying; but here the mourners seemed to walk the earth, or the air. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Those only who have studied in Egypt chaunt the Koran well. ❋ Unknown (2003)

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