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Definition of Hymnists
1. hymnist [n] - See also: hymnist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hymnists
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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