antiphonally
- adverb
- /ˌæn.tɪˈfɒn.ə.li/
- Specialized
- It also sung antiphonally, and many parishioners joined in the altar servers' responses, so it wasn't what I was expecting in a TLM!
Examples
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The last highlighted section speaks for itself, " However, there is quite a stretch between women teaching (i.e., expounding, explaining, clarifying, and elucidating Scripture) and reading Scripture antiphonally and collectively without giving instruction."
Blog text (5) -
The chants, which are beautiful in a simple, country monastery kind of way, are sung antiphonally, meaning that the schola and the faithful alternate voices.
Blog text (20) -
Playing begins antiphonally, the players alternating turns.
Academic text (1991) -
"It was a litany they'd recited antiphonally over the last couple of months.
Fiction book (2000) -
One of them is a sad story of the deaths of kings: the fall of public man and woman, as narrated by Russell Jacoby and repeated antiphonally by many others.
Academic text (2001) -
In asserting that Pastor Schewe was wrong to allow women to read sections of Scripture antiphonally, you want to be careful that you don't turn the application of a principle into the principle itself.
Blog text (5) -
However, there is quite a stretch between women teaching (i.e., expounding, explaining, clarifying, and elucidating Scripture) and reading Scripture antiphonally and collectively without giving instruction.
Blog text (5) -
The choir sang antiphonally, with one side responding to the other.
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During the ceremony, the participants recited their vows antiphonally, creating a beautiful harmony.
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In ancient churches, chants were often performed antiphonally, allowing the congregation to join in the alternating verses.
Surface Forms
Morphology
antiphonally = antiphonal (semi-transparent) = antiphon + al + ly
The change from the adjective 'antiphonal' to the adverb 'antiphonally' is a regular and transparent -al + -ly derivation.
Etymology
Antiphonally comes from the Greek parts anti- ('opposite') and phon- ('voice' or 'sound'), the same sound root in telephone and symphony. Picture two groups answering each other like a musical call-and-response. So, antiphonally means 'in a way where two groups or voices take turns'.