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Synonyms for hymned


Grammar : Verb
Spell : him
Phonetic Transcription : hɪm

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Définition of hymned

Origin :
  • c.1000, from Old French ymne and Old English ymen, both from Latin hymnus "song of praise," from Greek hymnos "song or ode in praise of gods or heroes," used in Septuagint for various Hebrew words meaning "song praising God." Possibly a variant of hymenaios "wedding song," from Hymen, Greek god of marriage (see hymen), or from a PIE root *sam- "to sing" (cf. Hittite išhamai "he sings," Sanskrit saman- "hymn, song") [Watkins]. Evidence for the silent -n- dates from at least 1530.
  • As in laud : verb acclaim, praise
  • As in sing : verb carry a tune with one's voice
  • As in eulogize : verb praise, glorify
  • As in extol : verb sing the praises of
  • As in glorify : verb praise
Example sentences :
  • I knew that he had often boomed or hymned in the storm or in the breeze.
  • Extract from : « Wild Life on the Rockies » by Enos A. Mills
  • The psalmist had hymned the victory won when "God gave the word."
  • Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Vol. 2 » by Alexander Maclaren
  • All the world of wings then hymned the light; but he more loudly than any.
  • Extract from : « The Bird » by Jules Michelet
  • For him also the day was adventure-packed and must lustily be hymned.
  • Extract from : « Once Aboard The Lugger » by Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson
  • I'm not in the least as he's hymned me—but that, surely, you've guessed between the lines.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Susan » by Lee Wilson Dodd
  • A poet might have hymned her thus, but no painter could have painted her.
  • Extract from : « Vera Nevill » by Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron
  • He hymned in memory the surge and darkness, the thunder and foam and phosphorescence—'You remember, Theodore?
  • Extract from : « And Even Now » by Max Beerbohm
  • It was Catherine who had introduced me to all my lyrics; it was to Catherine I had once hymned this one in my unformed heart.
  • Extract from : « No Hero » by E.W. Hornung
  • He has rallied round him not one great statesman; his praises are hymned by not one great poet.
  • Extract from : « The Parisians, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Tyburn to him was as a field of glory,   Where he must stoop to death his head sublime,   Hymned in full many an elegiac rhyme.
  • Extract from : « The Bon Gaultier Ballads » by William Edmonstoune Aytoun

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