Definition of 'cantillation'
noun
1.
the traditional notation representing the various traditional Jewish melodies to which scriptural passages are chanted
2.
chanting or intonation
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noun
in Jewish liturgy, a chanting or reciting with certain prescribed musical phrases indicated by notations
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