chaunt

English

Noun

chaunt (plural chaunts)

1. Obsolete spelling of chant

Verb

chaunt (third-person singular simple present chaunts, present participle chaunting, simple past and past participle chaunted)

1. Obsolete spelling of chant
   • 1901 [1839], Philip James Bailey, Festus: A Poem, London: George Routledge & Sons, page 9:

     Happier in reascent, than in his fall mournful, and through all purifying spheres perfective, let the bard his harp restrung, chaunt […]

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