Definition of Cantilenas

1. Noun. (plural of cantilena) ¹

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Definition of Cantilenas

1. cantilena [n] - See also: cantilena

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantilenas

canthus
cantic
canticle
cantico
canticoed
canticos
canticoy
canticoys
canticum
canticums
cantier
cantiest
cantiga
cantigas
cantilena
cantilenas (current term)
cantilever
cantilever beam
cantilever bridge
cantilevered
cantilevering
cantilevers
cantillate
cantillated
cantillates
cantillating
cantillation
cantillations
cantina
cantinas

Literary usage of Cantilenas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of English Poetry from the Twelfth to the Close of the Sixteenth Century by Thomas Warton, William Carew Hazlitt, Richard Price (1871)
"... eft de me breves cantilenas componere." A curious picture of the tyrant, the patron, and the barbarian, united ! ..."

2. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, Alexander James William Morrison (1852)
"... quia non est in toto regno Christiano, qui turpes cantilenas cantare in publico audeat ... in Christi lau- dibus, etiam per cantilenas linguae vulgaris, ..."

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