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- verb archaic alternative form of
sung
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Examples
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I had no idea that the explanation mark as I like to call it is derived from the ligature for “Io”, as in “And Io Io Io / By priest and people sungen”.
Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again 2010
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Daz sie nu messe sungen in einer capeln, an dem pfingstag daz geschach, da sank der stifter die messe alle mit den frawen, und het bustaben nie gelernt.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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The 3rd has that "Bimm, bamm" tintinnabulation that leads into, "Es sungen drei Engel."
Hurry, hurry, I feel my temperature rising... Patrick J. Smith 2006
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The 3rd has that "Bimm, bamm" tintinnabulation that leads into, "Es sungen drei Engel."
Archive 2006-10-01 Patrick J. Smith 2006
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Wie die Alten sungen, so zwitschern auch die Jungen.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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Alternations like sing, sang, sung (Anglo-Saxon singan, sang, sungen) were ingrained in the linguistic consciousness.
Chapter 8. Language as a Historical Product: Phonetic Law 1921
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"Diu werlt was gelf, röt unde blâ, grüen, in dem walde und anderswâ kleine vogele sungen dâ. nû schriet aber den nebelkrâ. pfligt s'iht ander varwe? jâ, s'ist worden bleich und übergrâ: des rimpfet sich vil manic brâ."
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
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"Es sungen drei Engel" ( "Three angels were singing"), with the American Boychoir and the women of the New York Choral Artists contributing a polished, transparent account of the angels 'chorus.
NYT > Home Page By ALLAN KOZINN 2010
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MAHLER: Symphony No. 3, in D minor: v. Es sungen drei Engel vi.
DownWithTyranny! 2010
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