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noun the act of singing psalms or hymns
originBorrowed from Latin psalmōdia, from Koine Greek ψαλμῳδίᾱ (psalmōidíā), from Ancient Greek ψαλμός (psalmós, “psalm”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0