Definition of Hymnists

1. Noun. (plural of hymnist) ¹

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Definition of Hymnists

1. hymnist [n] - See also: hymnist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hymnists

hymie
hymies
hymn
hymn-book
hymnal
hymnally
hymnals
hymnaries
hymnary
hymnbook
hymnbooks
hymned
hymnic
hymning
hymnist
hymnists (current term)
hymnless
hymnlike
hymnodic
hymnodies
hymnodist
hymnodists
hymnody
hymnographer
hymnographers
hymnography
hymnologies
hymnologist
hymnologists
hymnology

Literary usage of Hymnists

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"others emulate the materialism of the mediaeval Latin hymnists. He was often negligent, tame, prosy, prosaic, and especially careless as to his rhymes. ..."

2. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"CHAPTER IV AMERICAN HYMNS AND HYMN-WRITERS Excellence of American Hymnody—Great Poets as Hymn- writers—Early hymnists—Their Successors Down to Our Own ..."

3. Chapters in European History: With an Introductory Dialogue on the by William Samuel Lilly (1886)
"And in the verse of the medieval hymnists we see into the inner shrine of the religion of that period ; into its very heart. They interpret for us its ..."

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