psalmist
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]psalmist (plural psalmists)
- A composer of psalms
- 1878 January–December, Thomas Hardy, chapter 7, in The Return of the Native […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], published 1878, →OCLC, book I (The Three Women), page 157:
- 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.
- (capitalized) A composer of one of the Biblical Psalms
- 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 25, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
- The hunter is taken in his own snare, as the great Psalmist says.
- 1955 — Dwight D. Eisenhower, 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
[edit]composer of psalms
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composer of one of the Biblical Psalms
Anagrams
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French psalmiste. By surface analysis, psalm + -ist.
Noun
[edit]psalmist m (plural psalmiști)
Declension
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| nominative-accusative | psalmist | psalmistul | psalmiști | psalmiștii | |
| genitive-dative | psalmist | psalmistului | psalmiști | psalmiștilor | |
| vocative | psalmistule | psalmiștilor | |||