entonev.
/ɛnˈtəʊn/ transitive. = intone v. Occasionally archaic and technical with reference to church music.
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c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iv. 1498 Now may thou entone a mery songe.
c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iv. 1620 Entone sum ermonye!
1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 158 All the mortal nations..Are a dirge entoning.
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enˈtonement n. the action of intoning.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > chanting
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1849–53 D. Rock Church of our Fathers IV. xii. 137 Each took his own side of the choir for the entonement of the antiphons.
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