Chant vs Pray - 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.
To petition or solicit help from a supernatural or higher being.
To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.
(religion) to communicate with God for any reason.
(obsolete) To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
* Shakespeare
please; used to make a polite request.
* 1816 , (Jane Austen), , Volume 1 Chapter 8
* Charles Dickens, , 1841:
* Frederick Marryat, , 1845:
* 1892 , (Arthur Conan Doyle),
* 2013 , Martina Hyde, Is the pope Catholic?'' (in ''The Guardian , 20 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/20/is-pope-catholic-atheists-gay-people-abortion]
As verbs the difference between chant and pray
is that chant is to sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music while pray is to petition or solicit help from a supernatural or higher being.As a noun chant
is type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.As an adverb pray is
please; used to make a polite request.chant
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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
* ----pray
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Verb
(en verb)- Muslims pray in the direction of Mecca.
- I know not how to pray your patience.
Derived terms
* prayer * pray in aidAdverb
(-)- pray silence for…
- "Pray , Mr. Knightley," said Emma, who had been smiling to herself through a great part of this speech, "how do you know that Mr. Martin did not speak yesterday?"
- Pray''' don’t ask me why, '''pray''' don’t be sorry, '''pray don’t be vexed with me!
- Well, Major, pray tell us your adventures, for you have frightened us dreadfully.
- Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue your most interesting statement.
- He is a South American, so perhaps revolutionary spirit courses through Francis's veins. But what, pray , does the Catholic church want with doubt?