hymn
noun
a song or ode in praise or honor of God, a deity, a nation, etc.
hymned
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past participleof hymn.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof hymn.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
hymnnouna song or ode in praise or honor of God, a deity, a nation, etc.
Example Sentences
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The all-conquering love hymned in the classic musical was beginning to look like an increasingly flimsy fiction.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2020
After living for two years in a small cabin beside Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, he hymned the results in his classic account Walden, published in 1854.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
That has changed, or has seemed to change, recently, with Marine taking on a group of surreptitious haute-fonctionnaire “Horaces”—the name is a reference to the great if obsequious Roman poet who hymned the emperor Augustus.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2017
Captain Beefheart was also a visionary in one other, often overlooked, way: he hymned the natural world in his own inimitably odd way on songs such as My Human Gets Me Blues and Wild Life.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 19, 2010
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
