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- noun Plural form of
hymnist .
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Examples
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Now, beloved local baroque hymnists Fleet Foxes have announced an indoor show in Seattle at the majestically crumbling Moore.
fleet foxes are playing at the moore in october | Seattle Metblogs 2008
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Of the many hymnists inspired by Luther's example the more eminent were
Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody 1976
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They began with the canon for Easter-day of St. John Damascene, who, according to Despard, was the best of the Eastern hymnists.
Cord and Creese James De Mille
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The hymnists of Wales are many; but distinguished beyond and above every other, is the celebrated Williams of
The Poetry of Wales John Jenkins
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Methodist revival, both Calvinist and Wesleyan, of the Evangelical revival, and now at last of the Oxford revival, with its affluence of translations from the ancient hymnists, as well as of original hymns.
A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897
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Among the American hymnists the following are specially eminent, and their productions are often to be found in 'orthodox' collections:
Unitarianism W.G. Tarrant 1890
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I have said already, would never deny that these _may_ be part of the pleasant unconscious poetry of the Vedic hymnists.
Modern Mythology Andrew Lang 1878
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The sacred songs now used in our American churches are not solely of English origin, or of our own production; but many of the sweetest of them are free versions from the German hymnists.
History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology 1868
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Wesleyan, of the Evangelical revival, and now at last of the Oxford revival, with its affluence of translations from the ancient hymnists, as well as of original hymns.
A History of American Christianity Leonard Woolsey Bacon 1868
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Pundits of India far more cultured minds than David and the hymnists of
Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 James Kennedy 1857
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