2. Verb. (third-person singular of hymn) ¹
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Definition of Hymns
1. hymn [v] - See also: hymn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hymns
Literary usage of Hymns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"He possibly received his stimulus from the hymns of Huss, sent him by the ...
In 1523 Luther published eight hymns of his own, and by 1545 had written 125. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Here were hymns for the vulgar as well as for the learned ; hymns for the fireside
... Watts's hymns provided the Independents with a metrical liturgy from ..."
3. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1880)
"hymns and Hymn-Books—Discussion. REV. CHARLES H. RICE, Rector of Cheam, Surrey.
IT has been urged this evening that it would be difficult to find more than ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"St. Ambrose's hymns, like the old Roman dome, impress us by their classical
dignity and ... The exquisite beauty of the hymns of Prudentius induced the ..."
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