The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word ALLELUIA
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More clues leading to the result ALLELUIA
- Hymn from the works by European variously recalled at intervals
- University invested in Lamb’s complete essays? Praise be!
- Thus everyone gets to feel musical regularly, praise the Lord!
- A word of praise
- Like non-standard, occasionally-used, musical expression of praise
- Orchestra’s leader quits. Nice for him to get a chorus of praise
- Every prophet partook in the unionist academy – ‘Praise the Lord!’
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The straight part
We know that "expression of praise" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case expression of praise = alleluia.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ALLELUIA mean?
ALLELUIA noun- A liturgical form of hallelujah.
- A choral composition incorporating alleluia in its text.
- The plant wood sorrel.
- A liturgical or variant form of hallelujah.
- To cry "hallelujah" in praise.