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Definition of Choirs
1. choir [v] - See also: choir
Lexicographical Neighbors of Choirs
Literary usage of Choirs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Quite characteristic is the dominant idea that the different choirs of angels
are less intense in their love and knowledge of God the farther they are ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The churches were permanent choirs, whose main- •ong at it i height. Attached to
the larger Reforma- means of endowments. But in case of the rising tion. ..."
3. The Christian Pastor and the Working Church by Washington Gladden (1898)
"The vested choirs, in the cathedrals, and in the larger churches are, ... It would
be far better if churches employing choirs of this character would ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1867)
"CATHEDRAL choirs. A MONG the many peculiarities which cling tenaciously around -^*-
the ancient Cathedral Churches of England and Wales, the isolation of ..."
5. Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews by Robert Lowth (1829)
"Singing by alternate choirs. Though the performance of the hymns by two alternate
choirs, were the more usual, it evidently was not the only mode: for, ..."
6. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1778)
"The meeting of the three choirs, in the cathedral church of Gloucester, is intended
to promote a charitable ..."
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