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▪ I. hallelujah, -iah, int. and n.1|hælɪˈluːjə|
Also 6 halleluya, 6–7 halleluia(h, 7 halaluiah.
[a. Heb. hallĕlū-yāh ‘praise (ye) Jah (= Jehovah)’; the verb is the imper. plural of hallēl: see prec.]
1. a. The exclamation ‘Praise (ye) the Lord (Jah, or Jehovah)’, which occurs in many psalms and anthems; hence, a song of praise to God; = alleluia int. and n.1
1535Coverdale Ps. cv[i]. (heading) Halleluya. Ibid. 48 Let all people saye: Amen, Amen. Halleluya. 1557N. T. (Genev.) Rev. xix. 1, I heard the voyce of muche people in heauen saying, Halleluiah. 1625Sanderson Serm. I. 115 The abridgement is short, which some have made of the whole book of Psalms but into two words, hosannah, and hallelujah. 1667Milton P.L. vii. 634 And the Empyrean rung With Halleluiahs. 1738Wesley Hymn, ‘Lift up your Heads’ iv, Their Hallelujahs loud and sweet With our Hosannas join. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. ii, That the psalms they now heard must be exchanged in the space of two brief days for eternal hallelujahs or eternal lamentations.
b. = Hallelujah-chorus.
1880Grove Dict. Mus. I. 646 He [Handel] has written other Hallelujahs or Allelujahs.
c. attrib. and Comb., as hallelujah-band, -victory (see quots.); hallelujah-chorus, a musical composition based on the word ‘hallelujah’; hallelujah-lass, a popular name for a female member of the Salvation Army.
a1763Byrom Ep. Gentl. Temple (R.) Tune the hallelujah song anew. 1872O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms, Hallelujah Band, a sect of Protestant dissenters. 1880Grove Dict. Mus. I. 646 The Hallelujah Chorus in the Messiah is known to everyone. 1886F. Hume Myst. Hansom Cab (1887) xvi. 109 It appears that she had been in the Army as a hallelujah lass. 1889Reddell Fact, Fancy & Fable 247 Hallelujah Victory, That gained by newly converted Bretons, led by Germanus, Bishop of Auxerre, in 429. They went into battle shouting ‘Hallelujah!’ 1967W. S. Smith London Heretics iii. v. 238 In 1879..more than 2,000 fellow citizens packed into Livingston Hall nightly to listen to the ‘Hallelujah Lasses’.
2. A semi-Christian religion practised among the Carib-speaking peoples of Guyana.
1946F. W. Kenswil Childr. Silence vi. 13 Aboriginal Indians are a very religious set of people... Those of the hinterland of this colony [British Guiana] have their own religion which they call ‘Hallilieujah’. This Hallilieujah is said to have been conceived, in the dim past, by an Indian whose name was Bi-chi-wung. 1955Times 22 June 11/7 The most primitive religion which they still practise is a debased version of Christianity called Hallelujah... It..seems to date from some time in the nineteenth century.
▪ II. halleˈlujah, n.2
[Taken as the same word as prec.: but of uncertain origin.]
= alleluia n.2, the wood-sorrel. Prior Plant-n. 1863.
1920Sunday at Home June 569/2 Oxalis, the wood-sorrel, was known as hallelujah,..from its blossoming between Easter and Whitsuntide, when psalms were sung ending in the word hallelujah. 1923Times Lit. Suppl. 3 May 293/3 How happy is the country polyonymosity that hails it also as sheep-sorrel,..hallelujah,..and God Almighty's bread-and-cheese? |