Definition of "chaunt" []

• Archaic Variant of chant. (noun)

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• "It is a charming picture, and one would like to know more about that "chaunt," that "wild melody.""
• ""I let you 'chaunt', as you call it, to keep you from swearing.""
• "That chapel, once a religious sanctuary, when the choral hymn ascended in solemn chaunt to the pealing strains of the organ, with fervent devotion, was now degraded into"