psalmist

English

From psalm +‎ -ist.

psalmist (plural psalmists)

A composer of psalms.
- 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:
  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.
(capitalized, biblical) A composer of one of the Biblical Psalms.
Alternative form: Psalmist
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC:
  The hunter is taken in his own snare, as the great Psalmist says.
- 1955 January 6, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Third State of the Union Address:
  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.
- 2025 October 25, Stephen Cave, “Threescore and many more”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 9:
  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.”

composer of psalms

composer of one of the Biblical Psalms

psalmist m (plural psalmiști)

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
	singular		plural
nominative-accusative	psalmist	psalmistul	psalmiști	psalmiștii
genitive-dative	psalmist	psalmistului	psalmiști	psalmiștilor
vocative	psalmistule		psalmiștilor