Gloria Patri

noun

Definition of Gloria Patrinext
as in hallelujah

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  1. hallelujah
  2. paean
  3. requiem
  4. lament
  5. dirge
Noun
  • Said it over and over like a preacher singing hallelujah.
    Philip Martin, arkansasonline.com, 13 Sep. 2024
  • For me, especially as an A&R person, that’s hallelujah: Let the creative lead and the rest will follow.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 4 Sep. 2024
Definition of hallelujah
Noun
  • The aftermath of the Madison Square Garden comedy bit has already activated national voices such as Bad Bunny, who decided to republish his paean to Puerto Ricans.
    Rafael Bernal, The Hill, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The interiors are a paean to nautical good taste, decked with antique oil portraits, brass chandeliers, and white wainscotting.
    Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of paean
Noun
  • No dolphin will ever perform an autopsy, no dingo will read Heidegger, no macaque will write a requiem for piano and violin.
    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The Last Showgirl is a requiem for any woman who has ever been underestimated because of her beauty, her choices, or her art (so, essentially, every woman ever to exist).
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2024
Definition of requiem
Noun
  • Murphy, in one notable section, laments, Tourism is intrinsically incompatible with travelling.
    Tyler Thier, JSTOR Daily, 21 Oct. 2024
  • But where Knight of Cups often drifts along in a generalized fog of melancholy, Blanchett actually makes the film’s lament for shattered relationships and thwarted potential actually hurt.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of lament
Noun
  • The hand drums, played here by Keith, make this one spooky dirge.
    Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2024
  • Following long minutes of silence, a dirge of bagpipes began streaming from the church, suddenly growing loud as 10 pipers emerged with a corps of drummers behind, playing on as pallbearers rolled the casket out.
    Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
Definition of dirge
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