hymn
noun
a song or ode in praise or honor of God, a deity, a nation, etc.
had hymned
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past perfectof hymn.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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It is as if poetry had dealt with beans or with bacon and no poet had hymned the more beautiful associations of beans and bacon.
From The Law and the Poor by Edward Abbott Parry
It had sung loud enough in the streets last Wednesday; it had hymned the procession of his dreams and the loud tumultuous orgy of his passions; and why could he not hear it now?
From The Divine Fire by May Sinclair
Liberty that had hymned her birth in the last century now hymned her destiny in the voices of bard and orator.
From Eben Holden, a tale of the north country by Irving Bacheller
