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Recent Examples of canticle That’s the opening line of Slipknot’s rage-rot canticle. Spin Contributor, SPIN, 12 Feb. 2025 Her vocal elevates the song far beyond even its folk roots to something far more traditional, a canticle, a spiritual. Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019 Her vocal elevates the song far beyond even its folk roots to something far more traditional, a canticle, a spiritual. Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019 That’s the opening line of Slipknot’s rage-rot canticle. Spin Contributor, SPIN, 12 Feb. 2025 The leaders of this communal canticle were the women of Boygenius — Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus. Stephen Daw, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2023 The first was Bach’s glorious 12-part canticle, premiered in 1723 as the conclusion of the Christmas Vespers in Leipzig as a sort of meet-your-new-cantor demonstration of his powers. Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021 For many students of Dante, Purgatory is the Divine Comedy’s central canticle poetically, philosophically, and psychologically. Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021 Ancestor Glade is home to a rare canticle tree, the bark of which attracts a whisper of moths to aid you in deciphering an ancient Elder Scroll. Cian Maheer, Washington Post, 4 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for canticle
Noun
  • The service of hymns and prayer will be followed by a memorial roll call of members of the armed services who died in active duty.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2025
  • Seated on a stool with an acoustic guitar and surrounded by a semi-circle of 11 ace musicians, Simon delivered ruminations, deliberations and hymns via soft, deceivingly casual phrasings.
    Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • But there was no competition bow this year for Lapid’s in-your-face musical satire about a pair of Israeli artists who sign their souls over to a Russian oligarch to craft a post-October 7 nationalist anthem in support of their state.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 28 May 2025
  • Co-produced with Grammy-winning pianist Ruslan Sirota, the track is an anthem of transformation, self-worth, and feminine power.
    Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • The funeral of Pope Francis began with a short musical chant and psalm spoken in Latin after an open Book of the Gospels had been placed on top of Pope Francis’ closed coffin carried by pallbearers from inside St. Peter’s and placed on a red carpet on the edge of the church steps.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Fronted by the Swiss Guard, cardinals and other church leaders led the slow procession into the sunlit esplanade as a male choir chanted psalms and prayers in Latin and the great bells of the basilica tolled.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025

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“Canticle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canticle. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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