English
Noun
psalmist
- A composer of psalms
- (capitalized) A composer of one of the Biblical Psalms
Quotations
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1800s=1878 1897|
1900s=1955
1878 � w:Thomas Hardy|Thomas Hardy, s:The_Return_of_the_Native|The Return of the Native, ch. 7
:An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine.
1897 � w:Bram Stoker|Bram Stoker, s:Dracula|Dracula, ch. 25
:The hunter is taken in his own snare, as the great Psalmist says.
1955 � w:Dwight D. Eisenhower|Dwight D. Eisenhower, s:Dwight D. Eisenhower's Third State of the Union Address|Third State of the Union Address
:Either man is the creature whom the Psalmist described as "a little lower than the angels," crowned with glory and honor, holding "dominion over the works" of his Creator; or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification.
Translations
a composer of psalms (1)
French: psalmiste
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a composer of one of the Biblical Psalms (2)
French: psalmiste
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