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chantRitual incantation by an individual or group, for confidence or mutual support. Chants can be secular (as, for example, sports supporters' chants) or religious, both Eastern and Western. Ambrosian and Gregorian chants are forms of plainsong. |
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| They paddled on up the river, the dusky Indians now and then breaking out into a chant that seemed to give their muscles new energy. Mr Quilp was certainly entertaining himself with vocal exercise, but it was rather a kind of chant than a song; being a monotonous repetition of one sentence in a very rapid manner, with a long stress upon the last word, which he swelled into a dismal roar. When the second chant was rendered, the professor was highly excited. |
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