psalmist

plural psalmists

1. A composer of psalms.

   An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine.

   1878 January–December, Thomas Hardy, chapter 7, in The Return of the Native […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], published 1878, →OCLC, book I (The Three Women), page 157

2. capitalizedbiblicalA composer of one of the Biblical Psalms.

   The hunter is taken in his own snare, as the great Psalmist says.

   1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC

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   Either man is the creature whom the Psalmist described as "a little lower than the angels," crowned with glory and honor, holding "dominion over the works" of his Creator; or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification.

   1955 January 6, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Third State of the Union Address

   More than 2,500 years ago, the Psalmist of the Old Testament, for example, wrote that “the days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow.”

   2025 October 25, Stephen Cave, “Threescore and many more”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9

plural Psalmists

1. Alternative letter-case form of psalmist.