Cantation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cantation is a noun meaning Synonym of incantation.
Meaning
Synonym of incantation.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) A singing.
Example Sentences
He picked up the bows and began a soft cantation, long spoken by his father before him.
For thirty years there has seemed to me no difference between phonation (speech) and cantation (song), save in the length of the basic vowel sounds.
When we have come to hear thy sweet oblation Of love and joyance from thy sylvan station, Why, in the place of musical cantation, Balk us with pratings?
This literature contained a corpus of texts, most probably one for each school of Vedic cantation (the words śakhā, 'school' or 'branch', speaks in favor of this guess).
Word Forms
- cantations
Synonyms for cantation
Depending on context, synonyms include incantation.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cantion, canton, cantoress, canticle, cantour, cantorate.
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