Chantest vs Chastest - What's the difference?
chantest | chastest |
(archaic) (chant)
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.
(chaste)
abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate
virginal, innocent, having had no sexual experience
simple, austere, undecorative
modest, decent, morally pure
As a verb chantest
is archaic second-person singular of chant.As an adjective chastest is
superlative of chaste.chantest
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Verb
(head)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
* ----chastest
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Adjective
(head)chaste
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Adjective
(er)- a chaste style in composition or art
- a chaste''' mind; '''chaste eyes