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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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 Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)
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 Messenger, Ruth Ellis
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 Ryden, Ernest Edwin
John Julian, the noted hymnologist, declares that it must be classified with the four hymns that stand at the head of all English hymns.
From The Story of Our Hymns by Ryden, Ernest Edwin
Knapp was not only a hymnist but also a hymnologist.
From The Story of Our Hymns by Ryden, Ernest Edwin
