Definition of hymn in English:

hymn

noun hɪmhɪm

1A religious song or poem of praise to God or a god.
（赞美上帝或神的）圣歌，赞美诗
a Hellenistic hymn to Apollo
对阿波罗的古希腊语赞美歌。
Example sentencesExamples
- In Adhyatma Ramayana, Narada, in his hymn to Sri Rama, says that males of all species are Rama and females are Sita.
- During that powerful event, Sri Rudram, a much-revered propitiatory hymn to Lord Siva from the Yajur Veda, was chanted in unison 1,331 times.
- They should be ‘words’ that can't be easily guessed, like acronyms referring to hymns, praise songs, or verses.
- As you think about Jesus' goodness to you in prayer today, try writing your own hymn or prayer of praise.
- Wine and even drunkenness are frequent images in medieval hymns and other religious poems.
- It sounds uncommonly like a means of mass-producing aesthetic intensities of the sort hymned at the close of Pater's Renaissance.
- This hymn praises the Savior who stands over all creation and through whom all things, tapanta, are created and all things are held together.
- Therefore, in the long run, the descriptive praise of the hymns becomes praise that is only response to a human call to praise.
- Rig-Veda Samhita is the oldest of the four vedas and consists of 1028 hymns praising the ancient gods.
- All that the documents talk about are pesah banquets with wine, good food, and hymns of praise to God.
- Sage Agasthya taught Lord Rama the Aditya Hridayam, the hymn to Lord Surya when he felt fatigued during the battle with Ravana.
- It is a massive hymn in the Byzantine Rite, in praise of the Virgin Mary.
- These might be orchestral interludes or the religious hymns, but they form more contemplative passages, balancing the dialogue.
- She had a consistent gratitude for God's goodness; many of her poems and hymns capture her sense of the presence of God.
- In all four Vedas, there are references to women ascetics reciting Vedic hymns and even creating mantras.
- Author of five books, he has also compiled an equal number, including ‘Arul Maalai’, containing devotional hymns and articles on religion.
- What I couldn't do then and couldn't do for thirty years was the first line of the first poem, the hymn to Aphrodite.
- Poems and hymns of the Hebrew people are expressed in Psalms.
- It is this priority of visions, hymns, and poems that leads me to the Apocalypse of John for this second study.
- The Rig Veda is a collection of hymns praising the gods and glorifying the conquests and the heroics of the aristocratic Aryan cult.
- Every day, take one of the hymns of praise in Revelation and make it a central part of your prayer.
Synonyms
religious song, anthem, song of praise, canticle, chorale, psalm, carol, chant
antiphon, introit, doxology, spiritual, paean, plainsong
rare lay, miserere
1. 1.1 A formal song sung during Christian worship, typically by the whole congregation.
  （基督教礼拜时多由全体会众唱的）圣歌
  the traditional Easter hymn of rejoicing
  Example sentencesExamples
  I used to feel good when I went to the local Congregational Church and sang hymns.
  In the Christian tradition, hymns are songs of worship, sung by congregation and choir.
  That passage is said in the context of a hymn of praise.
  Through our hymns of praise, help us to celebrate the promises of your acceptance, love, and forgiveness.
  The conference opened with selected hymns designed to encourage hymn singing in Nigerian churches.
  The Bible Club members sit on a plastic sheet, wearing religious placards and singing hymns.
  The congregation sang the hymns to the accompaniment of organiser Ita Fitzpatrick.
  Were they preludes to a hymn sung by a congregation, and, if so, commoners in a parish church or gentry in a court chapel?
  It was especially heart-warming to sing hymns and songs of praise with so many people.
  In the structure of the hymn, praise is response in the sense of being a congregational response to a call to worship.
  A few feet away, a group of priests, nuns and Protestant ministers sang hymns while they waited to be removed.
  Both sat weeping with their heads bowed when after a service of hymns, prayers and poems, Robbie Williams's song Angels was performed.
  Our part of the programme entails the traditional bit of hymn singing in church.
  When Humayan arrived, Guru Angad and the congregation were absorbed in singing religious hymns.
  So often congregation members take sides over how to offer Christian education or when to sing a hymn.
  The congregation also sang the hymns Lord Of All Hopefulness and Abide With Me, and heard clips of Peel speaking in a variety of radio broadcasts.
  Unlike other funerals of known ANC leaders which are dominated by freedom songs, a church choir sang hymns for the activist.
  It was a dignified service, the hymns sung by the congregation with increasing emotion.
  Women participated in the singing of hymns, preaching in religious gatherings without any distinction.
  Protestants and other Christians have made wide use of secular sources for their hymn tunes and religious music.
2. 1.2 A book, film, or other composition praising someone or something.
  赞歌，颂文，颂歌，凯歌
  the film is a hymn to blue-collar mateyness
  Example sentencesExamples
  He picks up the same musical motif again after his hymn to love.
  More precisely, the film is a hymn to the theatricality implicit in most love affairs: their deceptive art and sweet fraudulence.
  One of my favorite books is an extended hymn of praise to French food, wine and general attitude toward the pleasant things in life.
  The lucky fools should be taking heart from the theme of the song, a hymn to love for its own sake, regardless of its object.
  Time After Time is an extended hymn to nature and indigenous traditions, across three continents.
  These portraits lent them a near iconic dimension, recording a pictorial hymn in their praise for posterity.
  Don Quixote is a monument to absurdity, a hymn to the inspiration and futility of the romantic anti-hero.
  Not two weeks ago these people were composing hymns to the separation of powers.
  It centers around the slain but risen Lamb, and climaxes in a great hymn to the Paschal Lamb.
  It is likely that you will join in the author's song with joy and wholeheartedly endorse the great hymn to eco-feminism with which chapter fifteen concludes.
  It is a hymn to the unanticipated and the miraculous and to the sustaining potential of faith and hope in life itself.
  Will Hutton's new book is a hymn of praise to Europe.
  Here, Earle lets guitar, harmonica, and drums roll out a vibrant hymn to hope.
  Earth has guessed much and rhythms the hymn behind the world in the stroke of her waves.

verb hɪmhɪm

1with object Praise (something)
赞美，颂扬
the joys of domesticity were being hymned in magazines
Example sentencesExamples
- For many centuries, he has been a comfortably rotund elephant-headed god hymned at the beginning of enterprises.
- Widowed, and with a little child, he felt violent pangs of transient remorse, and hymned his dead wife in vintage Nineties poet's minor melody.
- Already enamoured of the small Canadian town, he began to hymn its praises in verse which he read to public gatherings.
- Knox, safe in Frankfurt with the ‘Marian exiles’, lashed The Monstrous Regiment [rule] of Women and hymned the martyrs to Mary Tudor's fanaticism.
- Having hymned the nation's maritime glories, Wilson asked what he meant to be a purely rhetorical question: ‘And why am I saying all this?’
- With the Plame case, it is tempting to hymn the security services, and their hard work in discovering WMD.
- We want to hymn the man at the wheel, who hurls the lance of his spirit across the Earth, along the circle of its orbit.
- Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own affectingly hymns the singer's late father, pulling back from mawkishness.
- Today, the hymning of mental frailty has significantly reduced the stigma of idleness.
- Modesty, stoicism, self-restraint and resilience: these are endangered virtues, and I want to hymn them.
- For example, they did not often gather together with harps and rebecks to celebrate their national glories, or to hymn their national heroes.
- Remote antiquity, hymned by the tribe's poet, is revered, and the future feared as it may bring catastrophe or even annihilation.
- The finale optimistically hymns the progress of humankind.
- As rations dwindled, she sustained herself by hymning the consolations of good food.
- Last year they spoofed Lord of the Rings, mastered hip-hop and hymned the robot revolution - all on acoustic guitars.
- He hymns the progress of the year just past and the minty weight of new policies waiting for examination.
- Our problem is that we no longer see holiness in its particulars, in practices like marriage or work that he hymns over and again in his writing.
Synonyms
praise, applaud, cheer, commend, express approval of, approve, express admiration for, welcome, pay tribute to, speak highly of, eulogize, compliment, congratulate, celebrate, sing the praises of, praise to the skies, rave about, go into raptures about, go into raptures over, heap praise on, wax lyrical about, say nice things about, make much of, pat on the back, take one's hat off to, salute, throw bouquets at, lionize, exalt, admire, hail, toast, flatter, adulate, vaunt, extol, glorify, honour, hymn, clap
2rare no object Sing hymns.
〈罕〉唱赞歌；唱赞美诗
they were hymning to their god
Example sentencesExamples
- All set for the kindling of the sacred fire, we hymn you, O Lord, with our verses, invoking your powerful grace.
- There were Victorian songs of stilted enthusiasm for the innocence and clear sunny skies of the new country, hymned in the English art song idiom.

Derivatives

hymnic

adjective ˈhɪmnɪk

The author undertakes an evaluation and classification of those texts in First Testament Wisdom Literature which personify Wisdom in hymnic fashion.
Example sentencesExamples
- In 1970 a new communion liturgy with four musical settings (contemporary, hymnic, chant, and folk) was published as CW - 2.
- Perhaps if the heroic hymnic patriotism had been proposed, the sarcastic young firebrand of the piano concerto (etc.) would have jibbed.
- There are also quieter passages - some dark, like ‘Off To The Mill,’ and others, like ‘Cocoon,’ featuring a more hymnic quality.
- The 1965 resolution of the LCMS convention clearly envisioned liturgical and hymnic materials ‘under a single cover.’

Origin

Old English, via Latin from Greek humnos 'ode or song in praise of a god or hero', used in the Septuagint to translate various Hebrew words, and hence in the New Testament and other Christian writings.

Rhymes

bedim, brim, crim, dim, glim, grim, Grimm, gym, him, Jim, Kim, limb, limn, nim, prim, scrim, shim, Sim, skim, slim, swim, Tim, trim, vim, whim

Definition of hymn in US English:

hymn

nounhimhɪm

1A religious song or poem of praise to God or a god.
（赞美上帝或神的）圣歌，赞美诗
a Hellenistic hymn to Apollo
对阿波罗的古希腊语赞美歌。
Example sentencesExamples
- Rig-Veda Samhita is the oldest of the four vedas and consists of 1028 hymns praising the ancient gods.
- Wine and even drunkenness are frequent images in medieval hymns and other religious poems.
- It is this priority of visions, hymns, and poems that leads me to the Apocalypse of John for this second study.
- She had a consistent gratitude for God's goodness; many of her poems and hymns capture her sense of the presence of God.
- In all four Vedas, there are references to women ascetics reciting Vedic hymns and even creating mantras.
- Therefore, in the long run, the descriptive praise of the hymns becomes praise that is only response to a human call to praise.
- What I couldn't do then and couldn't do for thirty years was the first line of the first poem, the hymn to Aphrodite.
- They should be ‘words’ that can't be easily guessed, like acronyms referring to hymns, praise songs, or verses.
- It sounds uncommonly like a means of mass-producing aesthetic intensities of the sort hymned at the close of Pater's Renaissance.
- Every day, take one of the hymns of praise in Revelation and make it a central part of your prayer.
- Author of five books, he has also compiled an equal number, including ‘Arul Maalai’, containing devotional hymns and articles on religion.
- This hymn praises the Savior who stands over all creation and through whom all things, tapanta, are created and all things are held together.
- Sage Agasthya taught Lord Rama the Aditya Hridayam, the hymn to Lord Surya when he felt fatigued during the battle with Ravana.
- It is a massive hymn in the Byzantine Rite, in praise of the Virgin Mary.
- During that powerful event, Sri Rudram, a much-revered propitiatory hymn to Lord Siva from the Yajur Veda, was chanted in unison 1,331 times.
- Poems and hymns of the Hebrew people are expressed in Psalms.
- These might be orchestral interludes or the religious hymns, but they form more contemplative passages, balancing the dialogue.
- All that the documents talk about are pesah banquets with wine, good food, and hymns of praise to God.
- In Adhyatma Ramayana, Narada, in his hymn to Sri Rama, says that males of all species are Rama and females are Sita.
- The Rig Veda is a collection of hymns praising the gods and glorifying the conquests and the heroics of the aristocratic Aryan cult.
- As you think about Jesus' goodness to you in prayer today, try writing your own hymn or prayer of praise.
Synonyms
religious song, anthem, song of praise, canticle, chorale, psalm, carol, chant
1. 1.1 A formal song sung during Christian worship, typically by the whole congregation.
  （基督教礼拜时多由全体会众唱的）圣歌
  Example sentencesExamples
  Unlike other funerals of known ANC leaders which are dominated by freedom songs, a church choir sang hymns for the activist.
  The congregation sang the hymns to the accompaniment of organiser Ita Fitzpatrick.
  When Humayan arrived, Guru Angad and the congregation were absorbed in singing religious hymns.
  Our part of the programme entails the traditional bit of hymn singing in church.
  I used to feel good when I went to the local Congregational Church and sang hymns.
  A few feet away, a group of priests, nuns and Protestant ministers sang hymns while they waited to be removed.
  The conference opened with selected hymns designed to encourage hymn singing in Nigerian churches.
  Both sat weeping with their heads bowed when after a service of hymns, prayers and poems, Robbie Williams's song Angels was performed.
  Were they preludes to a hymn sung by a congregation, and, if so, commoners in a parish church or gentry in a court chapel?
  Protestants and other Christians have made wide use of secular sources for their hymn tunes and religious music.
  The Bible Club members sit on a plastic sheet, wearing religious placards and singing hymns.
  Through our hymns of praise, help us to celebrate the promises of your acceptance, love, and forgiveness.
  So often congregation members take sides over how to offer Christian education or when to sing a hymn.
  It was a dignified service, the hymns sung by the congregation with increasing emotion.
  It was especially heart-warming to sing hymns and songs of praise with so many people.
  The congregation also sang the hymns Lord Of All Hopefulness and Abide With Me, and heard clips of Peel speaking in a variety of radio broadcasts.
  In the structure of the hymn, praise is response in the sense of being a congregational response to a call to worship.
  That passage is said in the context of a hymn of praise.
  Women participated in the singing of hymns, preaching in religious gatherings without any distinction.
  In the Christian tradition, hymns are songs of worship, sung by congregation and choir.
2. 1.2 A song, text, or other composition praising or celebrating someone or something.
  赞歌，颂文，颂歌，凯歌
  a most unusual passage like a hymn to the great outdoors
  Example sentencesExamples
  These portraits lent them a near iconic dimension, recording a pictorial hymn in their praise for posterity.
  It is a hymn to the unanticipated and the miraculous and to the sustaining potential of faith and hope in life itself.
  Time After Time is an extended hymn to nature and indigenous traditions, across three continents.
  Earth has guessed much and rhythms the hymn behind the world in the stroke of her waves.
  Here, Earle lets guitar, harmonica, and drums roll out a vibrant hymn to hope.
  Will Hutton's new book is a hymn of praise to Europe.
  Not two weeks ago these people were composing hymns to the separation of powers.
  It centers around the slain but risen Lamb, and climaxes in a great hymn to the Paschal Lamb.
  It is likely that you will join in the author's song with joy and wholeheartedly endorse the great hymn to eco-feminism with which chapter fifteen concludes.
  The lucky fools should be taking heart from the theme of the song, a hymn to love for its own sake, regardless of its object.
  He picks up the same musical motif again after his hymn to love.
  More precisely, the film is a hymn to the theatricality implicit in most love affairs: their deceptive art and sweet fraudulence.
  Don Quixote is a monument to absurdity, a hymn to the inspiration and futility of the romantic anti-hero.
  One of my favorite books is an extended hymn of praise to French food, wine and general attitude toward the pleasant things in life.

verbhimhɪm

1with object Praise or celebrate (something)
赞美，颂扬
Johnson's reply hymns education
约翰逊的回答赞美了教育。
Example sentencesExamples
- Knox, safe in Frankfurt with the ‘Marian exiles’, lashed The Monstrous Regiment [rule] of Women and hymned the martyrs to Mary Tudor's fanaticism.
- For example, they did not often gather together with harps and rebecks to celebrate their national glories, or to hymn their national heroes.
- Remote antiquity, hymned by the tribe's poet, is revered, and the future feared as it may bring catastrophe or even annihilation.
- The finale optimistically hymns the progress of humankind.
- Today, the hymning of mental frailty has significantly reduced the stigma of idleness.
- For many centuries, he has been a comfortably rotund elephant-headed god hymned at the beginning of enterprises.
- Last year they spoofed Lord of the Rings, mastered hip-hop and hymned the robot revolution - all on acoustic guitars.
- Modesty, stoicism, self-restraint and resilience: these are endangered virtues, and I want to hymn them.
- Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own affectingly hymns the singer's late father, pulling back from mawkishness.
- Already enamoured of the small Canadian town, he began to hymn its praises in verse which he read to public gatherings.
- He hymns the progress of the year just past and the minty weight of new policies waiting for examination.
- Widowed, and with a little child, he felt violent pangs of transient remorse, and hymned his dead wife in vintage Nineties poet's minor melody.
- Having hymned the nation's maritime glories, Wilson asked what he meant to be a purely rhetorical question: ‘And why am I saying all this?’
- With the Plame case, it is tempting to hymn the security services, and their hard work in discovering WMD.
- Our problem is that we no longer see holiness in its particulars, in practices like marriage or work that he hymns over and again in his writing.
- As rations dwindled, she sustained herself by hymning the consolations of good food.
- We want to hymn the man at the wheel, who hurls the lance of his spirit across the Earth, along the circle of its orbit.
Synonyms
praise, applaud, cheer, commend, express approval of, approve, express admiration for, welcome, pay tribute to, speak highly of, eulogize, compliment, congratulate, celebrate, sing the praises of, praise to the skies, rave about, go into raptures about, go into raptures over, heap praise on, wax lyrical about, say nice things about, make much of, pat on the back, take one's hat off to, salute, throw bouquets at, lionize, exalt, admire, hail, toast, flatter, adulate, vaunt, extol, glorify, honour, hymn, clap
2rare no object Sing hymns.
〈罕〉唱赞歌；唱赞美诗
Example sentencesExamples
- There were Victorian songs of stilted enthusiasm for the innocence and clear sunny skies of the new country, hymned in the English art song idiom.
- All set for the kindling of the sacred fire, we hymn you, O Lord, with our verses, invoking your powerful grace.

Origin

Old English, via Latin from Greek humnos ‘ode or song in praise of a god or hero’, used in the Septuagint to translate various Hebrew words, and hence in the New Testament and other Christian writings.

单词	hymn
释义	Definition of hymn in English: hymn noun hɪmhɪm 1A religious song or poem of praise to God or a god. （赞美上帝或神的）圣歌，赞美诗 a Hellenistic hymn to Apollo 对阿波罗的古希腊语赞美歌。 Example sentencesExamples In Adhyatma Ramayana, Narada, in his hymn to Sri Rama, says that males of all species are Rama and females are Sita. During that powerful event, Sri Rudram, a much-revered propitiatory hymn to Lord Siva from the Yajur Veda, was chanted in unison 1,331 times. They should be ‘words’ that can't be easily guessed, like acronyms referring to hymns, praise songs, or verses. As you think about Jesus' goodness to you in prayer today, try writing your own hymn or prayer of praise. Wine and even drunkenness are frequent images in medieval hymns and other religious poems. It sounds uncommonly like a means of mass-producing aesthetic intensities of the sort hymned at the close of Pater's Renaissance. This hymn praises the Savior who stands over all creation and through whom all things, tapanta, are created and all things are held together. Therefore, in the long run, the descriptive praise of the hymns becomes praise that is only response to a human call to praise. Rig-Veda Samhita is the oldest of the four vedas and consists of 1028 hymns praising the ancient gods. All that the documents talk about are pesah banquets with wine, good food, and hymns of praise to God. Sage Agasthya taught Lord Rama the Aditya Hridayam, the hymn to Lord Surya when he felt fatigued during the battle with Ravana. It is a massive hymn in the Byzantine Rite, in praise of the Virgin Mary. These might be orchestral interludes or the religious hymns, but they form more contemplative passages, balancing the dialogue. She had a consistent gratitude for God's goodness; many of her poems and hymns capture her sense of the presence of God. In all four Vedas, there are references to women ascetics reciting Vedic hymns and even creating mantras. Author of five books, he has also compiled an equal number, including ‘Arul Maalai’, containing devotional hymns and articles on religion. What I couldn't do then and couldn't do for thirty years was the first line of the first poem, the hymn to Aphrodite. Poems and hymns of the Hebrew people are expressed in Psalms. It is this priority of visions, hymns, and poems that leads me to the Apocalypse of John for this second study. The Rig Veda is a collection of hymns praising the gods and glorifying the conquests and the heroics of the aristocratic Aryan cult. Every day, take one of the hymns of praise in Revelation and make it a central part of your prayer. Synonyms religious song, anthem, song of praise, canticle, chorale, psalm, carol, chant antiphon, introit, doxology, spiritual, paean, plainsong rare lay, miserere 1.1 A formal song sung during Christian worship, typically by the whole congregation. （基督教礼拜时多由全体会众唱的）圣歌 the traditional Easter hymn of rejoicing Example sentencesExamples I used to feel good when I went to the local Congregational Church and sang hymns. In the Christian tradition, hymns are songs of worship, sung by congregation and choir. That passage is said in the context of a hymn of praise. Through our hymns of praise, help us to celebrate the promises of your acceptance, love, and forgiveness. The conference opened with selected hymns designed to encourage hymn singing in Nigerian churches. The Bible Club members sit on a plastic sheet, wearing religious placards and singing hymns. The congregation sang the hymns to the accompaniment of organiser Ita Fitzpatrick. Were they preludes to a hymn sung by a congregation, and, if so, commoners in a parish church or gentry in a court chapel? It was especially heart-warming to sing hymns and songs of praise with so many people. In the structure of the hymn, praise is response in the sense of being a congregational response to a call to worship. A few feet away, a group of priests, nuns and Protestant ministers sang hymns while they waited to be removed. Both sat weeping with their heads bowed when after a service of hymns, prayers and poems, Robbie Williams's song Angels was performed. Our part of the programme entails the traditional bit of hymn singing in church. When Humayan arrived, Guru Angad and the congregation were absorbed in singing religious hymns. So often congregation members take sides over how to offer Christian education or when to sing a hymn. The congregation also sang the hymns Lord Of All Hopefulness and Abide With Me, and heard clips of Peel speaking in a variety of radio broadcasts. Unlike other funerals of known ANC leaders which are dominated by freedom songs, a church choir sang hymns for the activist. It was a dignified service, the hymns sung by the congregation with increasing emotion. Women participated in the singing of hymns, preaching in religious gatherings without any distinction. Protestants and other Christians have made wide use of secular sources for their hymn tunes and religious music. 1.2 A book, film, or other composition praising someone or something. 赞歌，颂文，颂歌，凯歌 the film is a hymn to blue-collar mateyness Example sentencesExamples He picks up the same musical motif again after his hymn to love. More precisely, the film is a hymn to the theatricality implicit in most love affairs: their deceptive art and sweet fraudulence. One of my favorite books is an extended hymn of praise to French food, wine and general attitude toward the pleasant things in life. The lucky fools should be taking heart from the theme of the song, a hymn to love for its own sake, regardless of its object. Time After Time is an extended hymn to nature and indigenous traditions, across three continents. These portraits lent them a near iconic dimension, recording a pictorial hymn in their praise for posterity. Don Quixote is a monument to absurdity, a hymn to the inspiration and futility of the romantic anti-hero. Not two weeks ago these people were composing hymns to the separation of powers. It centers around the slain but risen Lamb, and climaxes in a great hymn to the Paschal Lamb. It is likely that you will join in the author's song with joy and wholeheartedly endorse the great hymn to eco-feminism with which chapter fifteen concludes. It is a hymn to the unanticipated and the miraculous and to the sustaining potential of faith and hope in life itself. Will Hutton's new book is a hymn of praise to Europe. Here, Earle lets guitar, harmonica, and drums roll out a vibrant hymn to hope. Earth has guessed much and rhythms the hymn behind the world in the stroke of her waves. verb hɪmhɪm 1with object Praise (something) 赞美，颂扬 the joys of domesticity were being hymned in magazines Example sentencesExamples For many centuries, he has been a comfortably rotund elephant-headed god hymned at the beginning of enterprises. Widowed, and with a little child, he felt violent pangs of transient remorse, and hymned his dead wife in vintage Nineties poet's minor melody. Already enamoured of the small Canadian town, he began to hymn its praises in verse which he read to public gatherings. Knox, safe in Frankfurt with the ‘Marian exiles’, lashed The Monstrous Regiment [rule] of Women and hymned the martyrs to Mary Tudor's fanaticism. Having hymned the nation's maritime glories, Wilson asked what he meant to be a purely rhetorical question: ‘And why am I saying all this?’ With the Plame case, it is tempting to hymn the security services, and their hard work in discovering WMD. We want to hymn the man at the wheel, who hurls the lance of his spirit across the Earth, along the circle of its orbit. Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own affectingly hymns the singer's late father, pulling back from mawkishness. Today, the hymning of mental frailty has significantly reduced the stigma of idleness. Modesty, stoicism, self-restraint and resilience: these are endangered virtues, and I want to hymn them. For example, they did not often gather together with harps and rebecks to celebrate their national glories, or to hymn their national heroes. Remote antiquity, hymned by the tribe's poet, is revered, and the future feared as it may bring catastrophe or even annihilation. The finale optimistically hymns the progress of humankind. As rations dwindled, she sustained herself by hymning the consolations of good food. Last year they spoofed Lord of the Rings, mastered hip-hop and hymned the robot revolution - all on acoustic guitars. He hymns the progress of the year just past and the minty weight of new policies waiting for examination. Our problem is that we no longer see holiness in its particulars, in practices like marriage or work that he hymns over and again in his writing. Synonyms praise, applaud, cheer, commend, express approval of, approve, express admiration for, welcome, pay tribute to, speak highly of, eulogize, compliment, congratulate, celebrate, sing the praises of, praise to the skies, rave about, go into raptures about, go into raptures over, heap praise on, wax lyrical about, say nice things about, make much of, pat on the back, take one's hat off to, salute, throw bouquets at, lionize, exalt, admire, hail, toast, flatter, adulate, vaunt, extol, glorify, honour, hymn, clap 2rare no object Sing hymns. 〈罕〉唱赞歌；唱赞美诗 they were hymning to their god Example sentencesExamples All set for the kindling of the sacred fire, we hymn you, O Lord, with our verses, invoking your powerful grace. There were Victorian songs of stilted enthusiasm for the innocence and clear sunny skies of the new country, hymned in the English art song idiom. Derivatives hymnic adjective ˈhɪmnɪk The author undertakes an evaluation and classification of those texts in First Testament Wisdom Literature which personify Wisdom in hymnic fashion. Example sentencesExamples In 1970 a new communion liturgy with four musical settings (contemporary, hymnic, chant, and folk) was published as CW - 2. Perhaps if the heroic hymnic patriotism had been proposed, the sarcastic young firebrand of the piano concerto (etc.) would have jibbed. There are also quieter passages - some dark, like ‘Off To The Mill,’ and others, like ‘Cocoon,’ featuring a more hymnic quality. The 1965 resolution of the LCMS convention clearly envisioned liturgical and hymnic materials ‘under a single cover.’ Origin Old English, via Latin from Greek humnos 'ode or song in praise of a god or hero', used in the Septuagint to translate various Hebrew words, and hence in the New Testament and other Christian writings. Rhymes bedim, brim, crim, dim, glim, grim, Grimm, gym, him, Jim, Kim, limb, limn, nim, prim, scrim, shim, Sim, skim, slim, swim, Tim, trim, vim, whim Definition of hymn in US English: hymn nounhimhɪm 1A religious song or poem of praise to God or a god. （赞美上帝或神的）圣歌，赞美诗 a Hellenistic hymn to Apollo 对阿波罗的古希腊语赞美歌。 Example sentencesExamples Rig-Veda Samhita is the oldest of the four vedas and consists of 1028 hymns praising the ancient gods. Wine and even drunkenness are frequent images in medieval hymns and other religious poems. It is this priority of visions, hymns, and poems that leads me to the Apocalypse of John for this second study. She had a consistent gratitude for God's goodness; many of her poems and hymns capture her sense of the presence of God. In all four Vedas, there are references to women ascetics reciting Vedic hymns and even creating mantras. Therefore, in the long run, the descriptive praise of the hymns becomes praise that is only response to a human call to praise. What I couldn't do then and couldn't do for thirty years was the first line of the first poem, the hymn to Aphrodite. They should be ‘words’ that can't be easily guessed, like acronyms referring to hymns, praise songs, or verses. It sounds uncommonly like a means of mass-producing aesthetic intensities of the sort hymned at the close of Pater's Renaissance. Every day, take one of the hymns of praise in Revelation and make it a central part of your prayer. Author of five books, he has also compiled an equal number, including ‘Arul Maalai’, containing devotional hymns and articles on religion. This hymn praises the Savior who stands over all creation and through whom all things, tapanta, are created and all things are held together. Sage Agasthya taught Lord Rama the Aditya Hridayam, the hymn to Lord Surya when he felt fatigued during the battle with Ravana. It is a massive hymn in the Byzantine Rite, in praise of the Virgin Mary. During that powerful event, Sri Rudram, a much-revered propitiatory hymn to Lord Siva from the Yajur Veda, was chanted in unison 1,331 times. Poems and hymns of the Hebrew people are expressed in Psalms. These might be orchestral interludes or the religious hymns, but they form more contemplative passages, balancing the dialogue. All that the documents talk about are pesah banquets with wine, good food, and hymns of praise to God. In Adhyatma Ramayana, Narada, in his hymn to Sri Rama, says that males of all species are Rama and females are Sita. The Rig Veda is a collection of hymns praising the gods and glorifying the conquests and the heroics of the aristocratic Aryan cult. As you think about Jesus' goodness to you in prayer today, try writing your own hymn or prayer of praise. Synonyms religious song, anthem, song of praise, canticle, chorale, psalm, carol, chant 1.1 A formal song sung during Christian worship, typically by the whole congregation. （基督教礼拜时多由全体会众唱的）圣歌 Example sentencesExamples Unlike other funerals of known ANC leaders which are dominated by freedom songs, a church choir sang hymns for the activist. The congregation sang the hymns to the accompaniment of organiser Ita Fitzpatrick. When Humayan arrived, Guru Angad and the congregation were absorbed in singing religious hymns. Our part of the programme entails the traditional bit of hymn singing in church. I used to feel good when I went to the local Congregational Church and sang hymns. A few feet away, a group of priests, nuns and Protestant ministers sang hymns while they waited to be removed. The conference opened with selected hymns designed to encourage hymn singing in Nigerian churches. Both sat weeping with their heads bowed when after a service of hymns, prayers and poems, Robbie Williams's song Angels was performed. Were they preludes to a hymn sung by a congregation, and, if so, commoners in a parish church or gentry in a court chapel? Protestants and other Christians have made wide use of secular sources for their hymn tunes and religious music. The Bible Club members sit on a plastic sheet, wearing religious placards and singing hymns. Through our hymns of praise, help us to celebrate the promises of your acceptance, love, and forgiveness. So often congregation members take sides over how to offer Christian education or when to sing a hymn. It was a dignified service, the hymns sung by the congregation with increasing emotion. It was especially heart-warming to sing hymns and songs of praise with so many people. The congregation also sang the hymns Lord Of All Hopefulness and Abide With Me, and heard clips of Peel speaking in a variety of radio broadcasts. In the structure of the hymn, praise is response in the sense of being a congregational response to a call to worship. That passage is said in the context of a hymn of praise. Women participated in the singing of hymns, preaching in religious gatherings without any distinction. In the Christian tradition, hymns are songs of worship, sung by congregation and choir. 1.2 A song, text, or other composition praising or celebrating someone or something. 赞歌，颂文，颂歌，凯歌 a most unusual passage like a hymn to the great outdoors Example sentencesExamples These portraits lent them a near iconic dimension, recording a pictorial hymn in their praise for posterity. It is a hymn to the unanticipated and the miraculous and to the sustaining potential of faith and hope in life itself. Time After Time is an extended hymn to nature and indigenous traditions, across three continents. Earth has guessed much and rhythms the hymn behind the world in the stroke of her waves. Here, Earle lets guitar, harmonica, and drums roll out a vibrant hymn to hope. Will Hutton's new book is a hymn of praise to Europe. Not two weeks ago these people were composing hymns to the separation of powers. It centers around the slain but risen Lamb, and climaxes in a great hymn to the Paschal Lamb. It is likely that you will join in the author's song with joy and wholeheartedly endorse the great hymn to eco-feminism with which chapter fifteen concludes. The lucky fools should be taking heart from the theme of the song, a hymn to love for its own sake, regardless of its object. He picks up the same musical motif again after his hymn to love. More precisely, the film is a hymn to the theatricality implicit in most love affairs: their deceptive art and sweet fraudulence. Don Quixote is a monument to absurdity, a hymn to the inspiration and futility of the romantic anti-hero. One of my favorite books is an extended hymn of praise to French food, wine and general attitude toward the pleasant things in life. verbhimhɪm 1with object Praise or celebrate (something) 赞美，颂扬 Johnson's reply hymns education 约翰逊的回答赞美了教育。 Example sentencesExamples Knox, safe in Frankfurt with the ‘Marian exiles’, lashed The Monstrous Regiment [rule] of Women and hymned the martyrs to Mary Tudor's fanaticism. For example, they did not often gather together with harps and rebecks to celebrate their national glories, or to hymn their national heroes. Remote antiquity, hymned by the tribe's poet, is revered, and the future feared as it may bring catastrophe or even annihilation. The finale optimistically hymns the progress of humankind. Today, the hymning of mental frailty has significantly reduced the stigma of idleness. For many centuries, he has been a comfortably rotund elephant-headed god hymned at the beginning of enterprises. Last year they spoofed Lord of the Rings, mastered hip-hop and hymned the robot revolution - all on acoustic guitars. Modesty, stoicism, self-restraint and resilience: these are endangered virtues, and I want to hymn them. Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own affectingly hymns the singer's late father, pulling back from mawkishness. Already enamoured of the small Canadian town, he began to hymn its praises in verse which he read to public gatherings. He hymns the progress of the year just past and the minty weight of new policies waiting for examination. Widowed, and with a little child, he felt violent pangs of transient remorse, and hymned his dead wife in vintage Nineties poet's minor melody. Having hymned the nation's maritime glories, Wilson asked what he meant to be a purely rhetorical question: ‘And why am I saying all this?’ With the Plame case, it is tempting to hymn the security services, and their hard work in discovering WMD. Our problem is that we no longer see holiness in its particulars, in practices like marriage or work that he hymns over and again in his writing. As rations dwindled, she sustained herself by hymning the consolations of good food. We want to hymn the man at the wheel, who hurls the lance of his spirit across the Earth, along the circle of its orbit. Synonyms praise, applaud, cheer, commend, express approval of, approve, express admiration for, welcome, pay tribute to, speak highly of, eulogize, compliment, congratulate, celebrate, sing the praises of, praise to the skies, rave about, go into raptures about, go into raptures over, heap praise on, wax lyrical about, say nice things about, make much of, pat on the back, take one's hat off to, salute, throw bouquets at, lionize, exalt, admire, hail, toast, flatter, adulate, vaunt, extol, glorify, honour, hymn, clap 2rare no object Sing hymns. 〈罕〉唱赞歌；唱赞美诗 Example sentencesExamples There were Victorian songs of stilted enthusiasm for the innocence and clear sunny skies of the new country, hymned in the English art song idiom. All set for the kindling of the sacred fire, we hymn you, O Lord, with our verses, invoking your powerful grace. Origin Old English, via Latin from Greek humnos ‘ode or song in praise of a god or hero’, used in the Septuagint to translate various Hebrew words, and hence in the New Testament and other Christian writings.
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