1759 J. G. Cooper tr. J. B. Gresset Ver-vert ii. 19 In short, the Bird perform'd his part In all the psalmodizing art [Fr. Ver-Vert savait par cœur Tout ce que sait une mère de chœur].

1817 Lady Morgan France (1818) II. vii. 173 A kind of nasal psalmodizing.

1856 C. G. Leland tr. H. Heine Pictures Trav. (ed. 2) 376 If the Jews had formed the great mass of the people,..the aforesaid psalmodising would have been characterized with the name of ‘mauscheln’.

1925 Musical Q. 11 530 Their recitative is for him an intolerable psalmodizing.

1954 Tempo No. 34. 11 The bells ring out in strict time and pursue a rhythmical strand that differs from the psalmodising of the children.

2001 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 27 422 The Revival had added boisterous and emotional hymn-singing, often accompanied by the harmonium, to the dour psalmodising of the early Reformed Church.

1909 N.E.D. at Psalmodize v. Psalmodizing ppl. a.

1923 P. Rosenfeld Musical Chron. 56 He was a Puritan of New England; and the ramparts erected in his blood reveal themselves from time to time in the slightly psalmodizing vein which ducks in and out.

1953 Tempo No. 27. 32 This ‘split polyphony’..on one occasion leads to a pointed psalmodizing recitiative.

1997 K. Shepherd-Barr Ibsen & Early Modernist Theatre, 1890–1900 iii. 78 He compromised on the music by trying instead to bring it out through speech, asking his actors to employ a psalmodizing, plainchant delivery.