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an·ti·phon
n.
1. A devotional composition sung responsively as part of a liturgy.
2.
a. A short liturgical text chanted or sung responsively preceding or following a psalm, psalm verse, or canticle.
b. Such a text formerly used as a response but now rendered independently.
3. A response; a reply: "It would be truer . . . to see [conservation]
as an antiphon to the modernization of the 1950s and 1960s" Raphael
Samuel.
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*[Late Latin antiphna, sung responses; see anthem.]
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