Chant vs False - What's the difference?
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To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
* Spenser
To sing or intone sacred text.
Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.
(music) A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music.
Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
* Macaulay
A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a verb chant
is to sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.As a noun chant
is type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.chant
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic) chauntVerb
(en verb)- The cheerful birds do chant sweet music.
Noun
(wikipedia chant) (en noun)- His strange face, his strange chant .
Anagrams
* ----false
English
Adjective
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