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