hymnal

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  1. noun A book or collection of church hymns. Also called hymnary, hymnbook.

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  • He picked up a hymnal, stuck in the back of the pew, and thumbed through it. —  F ;SF - vol 086 issue 04 - April 1994
  • I for one would appreciate it if the government's key financial regulators were singing from the same hymnal, and would cut out the sniping, as they tried to fix the problem. —  Latest Articles
  • INDIANAPOLIS (BP) - A two-year journey to create and launch the next-generation hymnal was the primary focus of LifeWay Christian Resources 'presentation June
  • Begins as a crackly hymnal, a reedy Billy Joe warbling tenderly about "leading us to the promised land". —  Drowned In Sound // Feed
  • Growing up LDS, I thought all the hymns in the LDS hymnal were solely written by LDS people.
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  1. Middle English himnale, from Medieval Latin hymnāle, from Latin hymnus, hymn; see hymn.

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  1. from hymn + -al.
 

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