psalmist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a writer or composer of psalms, especially one of the biblical Psalms

   The psalmist turns from lament to praise in the final verses.

Formed from psalm + -ist. Psalm comes through Latin from Greek psalmos, a song performed with a stringed instrument, from psallein ("to pluck a string"); -ist identifies the person who composes the sacred song or poem.

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