Psalmist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈsɑːmɪst/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Psalmist is a noun meaning A composer of psalms.
Meaning
A composer of psalms.
More Meanings
- (capitalized, biblical) A composer of one of the Biblical Psalms.
Example Sentences
The hunter is taken in his own snare, as the great Psalmist says.
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.
More than 2,500 years ago, the Psalmist of the Old Testament, for example, wrote that “the days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow.”
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.
Word Forms
- psalmists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include exclaim, saith, exclaims, psalmographer, psalmwriter, symphonist.
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