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Noun

dithyramb ‎(plural dithyrambs)

1. A choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus.
2. A poem or oration in the same style.
   • 1969, Robert Conquest, “George Orwell”, in Arias from a Love Opera, and Other Poems, Macmillan, page 32,

     While those who drown a truth’s empiric part

     In dithyramb or dogma turn frenetic;

     — Than whom no writer could be less poetic

     He left this lesson for all verse, all art.

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