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an·ti·phon  (  n  t  -f  n  ) KEY NOUN:
- A devotional composition sung responsively as part of a liturgy.
- A short liturgical text chanted or sung responsively preceding or following a psalm, psalm verse, or canticle.
- Such a text formerly used as a response but now rendered independently.
- A response; a reply: "It would be truer . . . to see [conservation] as an antiphon to the modernization of the 1950s and 1960s" (Raphael Samuel).
ETYMOLOGY:Late Latin antiph na, sung responses ; see anthem
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