psalmbook

[ sahm-book ]

noun

1. a book containing psalms for liturgical or devotional use.

Word History and Origins

Origin of psalmbook¹

First recorded in 1150–1200, psalmbook is from Middle English salm boc. See psalm, book

Example Sentences

The church cannot sell items in that collection, but a 1978 probate court ruling found that the second psalmbook is not a part of it, which most likely means that the church is allowed to sell it.

From New York Times

John Pierpont Morgan presently went to see Mrs. Noyes's heirloom: the famed Luttrell Psalter, an exquisitely illuminated manuscript psalmbook made in East Anglia about 1340 for rich Sir Geoffrey Luttrell.

From Time Magazine Archive

This hymnal appeared in 1855, under the title, Roskilde Convent’s Psalmbook.

From Project Gutenberg

"A pound of Reasons and Proportionate Almonds," "A Psalmbook elegantly bound in Turkey leather," "A pair of Shoe Buckles cost five shillings three pence."

From Project Gutenberg

The ridicule heaped upon Sternhold and Hopkins's psalmbook has always stopped, and sobered into admiration and even reverence at the two stanzas beginning with this leading line— The Lord descended from above And bowed the heavens most high, And underneath His feet He cast The darkness of the sky.

From Project Gutenberg