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Definition of Cantilenas
1. cantilena [n] - See also: cantilena
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantilenas
Literary usage of Cantilenas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of English Poetry from the Twelfth to the Close of the Sixteenth Century by Thomas Warton, William Carew Hazlitt, Richard Price (1871)
"... eft de me breves cantilenas componere." A curious picture of the tyrant, the
patron, and the barbarian, united ! ..."
2. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, Alexander James William Morrison (1852)
"... quia non est in toto regno Christiano, qui turpes cantilenas cantare in publico
audeat ... in Christi lau- dibus, etiam per cantilenas linguae vulgaris, ..."
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