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Definition of Hymnodists
1. hymnodist [n] - See also: hymnodist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hymnodists
Literary usage of Hymnodists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1905)
"... whom those who h»TC read him in manuscript or scanty excerpts pronounce the
greatest of Greek hymnodists, flourished as early as 500, ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Borrowing from celebrated hymns was a common practice of medieval hymnodists.
Mone ascribes it to St. Gregory because of its classical metre and occasional ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Styled also the "Prince of Greek hymnodists," the English titles of three of his
most famous hymns are the well-known "Come, ye faithful, raise the strain"; ..."
4. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"Worsley's Poems and Translations, 1863, contain some neat turnings from Horace,
and some more vivid ones from the Latin hymnodists ; the original poems are ..."
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