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Webster 1913 Edition
Antiphon
Webster 1828 Edition
Antiphon
AN'TIPHON
,Noun.
The chant or alternate singing in choirs of cathedrals.
Definition 2024
antiphon
antiphon
English
Noun
antiphon (plural antiphons)
- A devotional piece of music sung responsively.
- A response or reply.
- 2007, Barbara Everett, ‘Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances’, in the London Review of Books 29:6, page 20:
- The Clown […] says: ‘And so we wept; and there was the first gentleman-like tears that ever we shed’; to which his father, the Shepherd, adds the comfortable antiphon, ‘We may live, son, to shed many more.’
- 2007, Barbara Everett, ‘Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances’, in the London Review of Books 29:6, page 20:
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Translations
devotional piece of music sung responsively