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US
/ˈhɪm/
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[ UK /hˈɪm/ ]
[ UK /hˈɪm/ ]
VERB
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praise by singing a hymn
They hymned their love of God - sing a hymn
NOUN
- a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)
How To Use hymn In A Sentence
- In 1971, the recording centre moved to a beautiful carriage house in Baarn, which was soon christened 'Polyhymnia', after the muse of sublime and sacred hymn. Audiophile Audition Headlines
- Worse still, some practices which Sacrosanctum Concilium had never even contemplated were allowed into the Liturgy, like Mass “versus populum”, Holy Communion on the hand, altogether giving up on the Latin and Gregorian Chant in favour of the vernacular and songs and hymns without much space for God, and extension beyond any reasonable limits of the faculty to concelebrate at Holy Mass. Archbishop Ranjith's Foreword to "True Development of the Liturgy"
- Church of Constantinople was still strong, as is shown by the great work of S. Theodore of the S.udium, famous as a hymn-writer, a liturgiologist, and a defender of the faith. The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003
- The Stabat Mater has been retained as an optional Sequence for September 15 in the reformed Roman Missal and as the hymn for the Office of Readings, Morning Prayer, and Evening Prayer in the new Liturgy of Hours. Archive 2009-04-01
- At a time when they were still singing soupy Victorian hymns in churches, this choir performed relatively modem music.
- Could you just sing the tune of the hymn rather than the hundred and fifty-seven little twiddly bits?
- The spirit of a soldier of the Truth entered into me; weary as I was, I rushed from the dusky corner where I had been hidden in the twilight, ran to the altar, and held up my hand with my hymn-book as I began to repeat an address that had often silenced the papistic mummers in England. In the Wrong Paradise
- Protestant hymnody in particular has a special hold on him.
- There was, of course, a vast amount of music in the U.S. in this period besides symphonic music, Lutheran hymnody, and Wagnerian opera.
- Unfortunately, no details were given as to the criteria for selection of the hymnals nor were the hymnals themselves named.