hymnology
noun
the study of hymns, their history, classification, etc.
hymnologist
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a word derived from
hymnology.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Brownlie has earned for himself the title of hymnologist, and his work and research are at this day of great sterling value to all engaged in the study or collection of hymns.”—Bookman.
From Hymns from the Greek Office Books Together with Centos and Suggestions by John Brownlie
From time to time quantities of these books were sent to the Swedish colonists in America, for whose “preservation in the true faith,” as the hymnologist Söderberg ironically remarks, “the Swedish authorities seemed less concerned.”
From The Story of Our Hymns by Ernest Edwin Ryden
He can speak and write twenty-eight tongues, including the Chinese and three African languages, and is also eminent as a priest, hymnologist and religious editor.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 Volume 1, Number 7 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
The use of canticles, more particularly in their variations, is of supreme interest to the hymnologist, because it offers a theory of the origin of Christian hymnody apart from liturgical interpolations or from the psalms.
From Christian Hymns of the First Three Centuries by Ruth Ellis Messenger
The German poet and hymnologist, Albert Knapp, has called it “a little feather from the eagle wing of Gustavus Adolphus.”
From The Story of Our Hymns by Ernest Edwin Ryden
