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Petitionary
Petitionary meaning
supplicatory or asking; making a petition | Containing a petition, or having the nature of a petition.
Synonyms of Petitionary
Example sentences (2)
A special feature of the four-part and five-part Masses is Byrd's treatment of the Agnus Dei, which employ the technique which Byrd had previously applied to the petitionary clauses from the motets of the 1589 and 1591 Cantiones sacrae.
Byrd evolved a special "cell" technique for setting the petitionary clauses such as miserere mei or libera nos Domine which form the focal point for a number of the texts.