psalmist
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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 edit
Declension of psalmist
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) psalmist | psalmistul | (niște) psalmiști | psalmiștii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) psalmist | psalmistului | (unor) psalmiști | psalmiștilor |
| vocative | psalmistule | psalmiștilor | ||