Hymn
[hɪm]
Definition
(noun.) a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation).
(verb.) praise by singing a hymn; 'They hymned their love of God'.
(verb.) sing a hymn.
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Definition
(n.) An ode or song of praise or adoration; especially, a religious ode, a sacred lyric; a song of praise or thankgiving intended to be used in religious service; as, the Homeric hymns; Watts' hymns.
(v. t.) To praise in song; to worship or extol by singing hymns; to sing.
(v. i.) To sing in praise or adoration.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Song (of praise), devotional song, spiritual song.
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Definition
n. a song of praise a metrical formula of public worship.—v.t. to celebrate in song: to worship by hymns.—v.i. to sing in adoration.—ns. Hym′nal Hym′nary a hymn-book.—adj. Hym′nic relating to hymns.—ns. Hym′nody hymns collectively: hymnology; Hymnog′rapher; Hymnog′raphy the art of writing hymns; Hymnol′ogist; Hymnol′ogy the study or composition of hymns.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of hearing hymns sung, denotes contentment in the home and average prospects in business affairs. See Singing.
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Examples
- Hundredth Psalm, Evening Hymn, hay Pitt? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Crispin, do you remember the Flower Hymn to Demeter you wrote long ago? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The fat Dissenter who had given out the hymn was left sitting in the ditch. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A long grace was said and a hymn sung; then a servant brought in some tea for the teachers, and the meal began. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- On rising, another struck up a Methodist hymn, of which the burden was, The year of Jubilee is come,-- Return, ye ransomed sinners, home. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Tradition has preserved some wild strophes of the barbarous hymn which she chanted wildly amid that scene of fire and of slaughter:-- 1. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- So it is, and so it must be, because like the dogs in the hymn, 'it is our nature to. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Have you learned any hymns this week, Polly? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But we shall continue to prohibit all poetry which goes beyond hymns to the Gods and praises of famous men. Plato. The Republic.
- Hymns to the Gods, which are the only kind of music admitted into the ideal State, were the only kind which was permitted at Sparta. Plato. The Republic.
- Seeing this did more for Jo than the wisest sermons, the saintliest hymns, the most fervent prayers that any voice could utter. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Shortly a supplementary program was issued which set forth that the Plymouth Collection of Hymns would be used on board the ship. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The devotions consisted only of two hymns from the Plymouth Collection and a short prayer, and seldom occupied more than fifteen minutes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Because rationality itself is a wilful exercise one hears Hymns to Reason and sees it personified as an extremely dignified goddess. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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