Type of Christian song specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer.
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Examples for "hymn "
Examples for "hymn "
1 About him the simple hymn rose and fell in its measured cadences.
2 These replaced the national hymn in the music played by the navy.
3 His hymn is one of the most soul-stirring in the English language:
4 In accord with this peculiar province of the god, the hymn continues:
5 The supposed date of the hymn is 1860; the author, Albert Midlane.
1 Even in a Christian Hymn , the Messiah of Pope, this idea occurs.
2 Overture; forest sounds, roaring of lions, Christian hymn faintly.
3 We recited together holy verses, then sang Christian hymns .
4 In the village street he heard a boy's voice singing two lines of the Christian hymn -
5 Among the electronic sounds we catch fugitive glimpses of Japanese monks chanting, folk songs, Christian hymns .
1 A procession of peasants passed, chanting slowly and solemnly a religious hymn .
2 Now all the musical instruments played a solemn, religious hymn .
3 It was an especially religious hymn , very slow and mournful.
4 B. Jackson's "Lonesome Valley" - a wordless religious hymn of great power and beauty.
5 I am no judge of melody, but this strikes me as that of a religious hymn .
1 He paused; from the streets of the city rose a sacred song .
2 They've taken your sacred song and used it for a Ford ad.
3 The Psalter separates into several books of sacred song , dating from different periods.
4 A sacred song rose on the evening air, a solemn but beautiful hymn.
5 Sing, my Daughter, sing that old and sacred song which I have taught you.
1 We'd pull out a church song book and all sing together.
2 If that were only a church song I could sing it in the choir.
3 He hummed some church song his mother used to sing.
4 The strikers sang the church song "I'll Be All Right Someday".
5 He has also written a deal of church song .
1 The liturgical chants were then something new in the West.
2 Later, in great severity, he will reproach himself for the pleasure he takes in the liturgical chants , but nevertheless the old instinct will remain.
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