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Meanings of hymn text in English

Russian
религиозная песня
Portuguese
hino religioso
Catalan
himne religiós
Spanish
himno

Type of Christian song specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer.

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      религиозная песня
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      Examples for "hymn"
      Examples for "hymn"
      1
      About him the simple hymn rose and fell in its measured cadences.
      Those Who Smiled, and Eleven Other Stories
      2
      These replaced the national hymn in the music played by the navy.
      Penguin Island
      3
      His hymn is one of the most soul-stirring in the English language:
      The Story of the Hymns and Tunes
      4
      In accord with this peculiar province of the god, the hymn continues:
      The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
      5
      The supposed date of the hymn is 1860; the author, Albert Midlane.
      The Story of the Hymns and Tunes
      1
      Even in a Christian Hymn, the Messiah of Pope, this idea occurs.
      Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable
      2
      Overture; forest sounds, roaring of lions, Christian hymn faintly.
      Androcles and the Lion
      3
      We recited together holy verses, then sang Christian hymns.
      The diary of mattie spenser
      4
      In the village street he heard a boy's voice singing two lines of the Christian hymn-
      The Brownies and Other Tales
      5
      Among the electronic sounds we catch fugitive glimpses of Japanese monks chanting, folk songs, Christian hymns.
      The Guardian
      1
      A procession of peasants passed, chanting slowly and solemnly a religious hymn.
      Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad
      2
      Now all the musical instruments played a solemn, religious hymn.
      The Pedler of Dust Sticks
      3
      It was an especially religious hymn, very slow and mournful.
      Missy
      4
      B. Jackson's "Lonesome Valley" - a wordless religious hymn of great power and beauty.
      Wired
      5
      I am no judge of melody, but this strikes me as that of a religious hymn.
      A Strange Story — Volume 02
      1
      He paused; from the streets of the city rose a sacred song.
      The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars / Being the Posthumous Pa...
      2
      They've taken your sacred song and used it for a Ford ad.
      Radio NZ
      3
      The Psalter separates into several books of sacred song, dating from different periods.
      The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible
      4
      A sacred song rose on the evening air, a solemn but beautiful hymn.
      Beulah
      5
      Sing, my Daughter, sing that old and sacred song which I have taught you.
      Morning Star
      1
      We'd pull out a church song book and all sing together.
      The Irish Times
      2
      If that were only a church song I could sing it in the choir.
      Pearl and Periwinkle
      3
      He hummed some church song his mother used to sing.
      Raising Stony Mayhall
      4
      The strikers sang the church song "I'll Be All Right Someday".
      The new yorker
      5
      He has also written a deal of church song.
      Contemporary American Composers / Being a Study of the Music of ...
      1
      The liturgical chants were then something new in the West.
      Saint Augustin
      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.
      Saint Augustin