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Definition of Chaunted
1. chaunt [v] - See also: chaunt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chaunted
Literary usage of Chaunted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"... chaunted, ppl. adj. (streets').— Sunc of, and celebrated, in street ballads.
[From с HAUNT, to sing street ballads, + ED. ..."
2. Tibet, Tartary and Mongolia: Their Social and Political Condition, and the by Henry Thoby Prinsep (1852)
"... of some part of what is thus chaunted or recited, and we have ourselves been
much struck by the resemblance in spirit and tone, to parts of the Litany, ..."
3. History of Roman Literature from Its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age by John Colin Dunlop (1827)
"Of this changeable tongue, the earliest specimen extant, and which is supposed
to be as ancient as the time of Romulus, is the hymn chaunted by the Fratres ..."
4. The Lumière: Containing a Variety of Topographical Views in Europe and America (1831)
"The great altar was occupied by nearly two hundred priests in their white robes
and black cowls, whose voices, as they devoutly bowed and chaunted, ..."
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