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[ UK /kˈɑːntɪkə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. a hymn derived from the Bible

How To Use canticle In A Sentence

  • Themes of emigration, pilgrimage, diaspora, exile and new homelands are woven into the psalms and canticles.
  • In Mary's canticle, Luke records a text that, like Zechariah's, has little to do with the surrounding text.
  • These canticles are metrical in their structure and are composed in the so-called Gatha-dialect, a more archaic form of language than is used in the rest of the Avesta. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
  • I also vividly remember attending the BBC Symphony Orchestra premieres of Stravinsky's Requiem canticles and Boulez's Eclat, in which she took a leading part.
  • The composer not only utilises the biblical canticle attributed to Mary but the text is also made up of the poem, ‘Of a Rose, a lovely Rose’ and at its conclusion we come across the ‘Sancta Maria’.
  • Themes of emigration, pilgrimage, diaspora, exile and new homelands are woven into the psalms and canticles.
  • Composed shortly after The Turn of the Screw, the Canticle shares that opera's claustrophobic, oppressive atmosphere.
  • The four daily services are based very closely on The Book of Common Prayer, with psalms and canticles wisely chosen from the breadth of the whole tradition.
  • This was no Saint Francis with enough time to knock out a few canticles or to preach to the birds or do any of the other endearing things so close to Franny Glass's heart.
  • While most of those who have accepted the theory of imitation-they cannot have reread the Idylls and the Song as wholes to persist in such a theory-have contended that Theocritus borrowed from Canticles, Graetz is convinced that the Hebrew poet must have known and imitated the Greek idyllist. The Book of Delight and Other Papers
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