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Definition of Intones
1. intone [v] - See also: intone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intones
Literary usage of Intones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Remarks Upon a Late Discourse of Free-thinking: In a Letter to F. H., D. D. by Richard Bentley (1743)
"Now if a Foreigner may judge of your Language, THE VARIOUS, Notions can mean no.
kfs than Singulas Of intones, the federal, and even all die Notions of the ..."
2. A New School of Gregorian Chant by Dominicus Johner (1906)
"The priest intones the first antiphon, which is continued by the choir; Hereupon the
... The cantor now intones the second antiphon and so on till the five ..."
3. The Ministry of Deaconesses by Cecilia Robinson, Joseph Armitage Robinson (1898)
"The Archdeacon intones Peace, and the Bishop prays, beginning Our Father, which
art in heaven, and then says, To Thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul, ..."
4. Pennsylvania School Journal by Pennsylvania state educational association, Pennsylvania. Dept. of public instruction (1855)
"... upon which it can securely rest, while it the wise will speak of you intones
of grateful remem- ¡surveys the objects presented to its view : and, ..."
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