black sanctus
black sanctus noun: a profane or blasphemous parody of a hymn.
Noun
black sanctus (plural black sanctuses)
- A profane or blasphemous parody of a hymn.
- I knewe I would make him soone change his note, / I will make him sing the blacke sanctus, I holde him a grote.1578, Thomas Lupton, A moral and pitieful comedie, intituled, All for money […], folio 8ʳ
- The surly sinners sing / A horrible black santis, so to cheer / The work in hand. And evermore you hear / A shout of awful joy, as down goes some / Three-hundred-years-old treasure.1861, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, “Adolfus, Duke of Guelders”, in All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, volume 5, page 14
- Harsh words, especially profanities, or other dissonant noises; a cacophony.
- As plesaunt to the ere as the blacke sanctus / Of a sad sorte vpon a mery pyn.1533, Robert Saltwood, A comparyson bytwene. iiij. byrdes, the larke, the nyghtyngale, ye thrusshe & the cuko, for theyr syngynge who shuld be chauntoure of the quere, folio 14ᵛ
Forms of black sanctus
| plural | black sanctuses |
|---|---|
| alternative form | black santis |
| alternative form | blacke-saint |
| alternative form | blacke santis |
| alternative form | blacke santus |
| alternative form | blacksaunt |
| alternative form | black-sant |
| alternative form | blacke saunts |
| alternative form | blacke sanctus |
| alternative form | black santos |
| alternative form | black sanctis |
Origin of black sanctus
Compound of black + sanctus.
Questions about black sanctus
- What does black sanctus mean?
- Black sanctus means a profane or blasphemous parody of a hymn.
- What part of speech is black sanctus?
- Black sanctus is a noun.
- What is the plural of black sanctus?
- The plural of black sanctus is black sanctuses.
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