Halleluiah

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Halleluiah \Hal`le*lu"iah\, Hallelujah \Hal`le*lu"jah\
     (h[a^]l`l[-e]*l[=u]"y[.a]), n. & interj. [Heb. See
     {Alleluia}.]
     Praise ye Jehovah; praise ye the Lord; -- an exclamation used
     chiefly in songs of praise or thanksgiving to God, and as an
     expression of gratitude or adoration. --Rev. xix. 1 (Rev.


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           So sung they, and the empyrean rung
           With Hallelujahs.                        --Milton.
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           In those days, as St. Jerome tells us,"any one as he
           walked in the fields, might hear the plowman at his
           hallelujahs."                            --Sharp.
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