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Hymning

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hymn  (hm)
n.
1. A song of praise or thanksgiving to God or a deity.
2. A song of praise or joy; a paean.
v. hymned, hymn·ing, hymns
v.tr.
To praise, glorify, or worship in or as if in a hymn.
v.intr.
To sing hymns.
[Middle English imne, from Old French ymne, from Latin hymnus, song of praise, from Greek humnos.]


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Thus they in Heav'n, above the starry Sphear, Thir happie hours in joy and hymning spent.
Paradise Lost by Milton, John View in context
Thus all day long the young men worshipped the god with song, hymning him and chaunting the joyous paean, and the god took pleasure in their voices; but when the sun went down, and it came on dark, they laid themselves down to sleep by the stern cables of the ship, and when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared they again set sail for the host of the Achaeans.
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