(n.) An ode or song of praise or adoration; especially, a religious ode, a sacred lyric; a song of praise or thankgiving intended to be used in religious service; as, the Homeric hymns; Watts' hymns.
(v. t.) To praise in song; to worship or extol by singing hymns; to sing.
(v. i.) To sing in praise or adoration.
Example Sentences:
(1) A truck stopped on a street corner, blaring martyrdom hymns throughout the cavernous lanes and alleys of the party's heartland.
(2) As the hymns faded Francis made a now familiar appeal in English: “Please,” he said, “I ask you: don’t forget to pray for me.” It was his last scheduled event in New York.
(3) Many wept, wiping tears off their faces as the melancholic tunes of the hymns reached them through loudspeakers.
(4) He has also covered an old Scottish folk song, 'Hymn Of The Whale', as well as a fearsome semi-industrial track in the company of the erstwhile drummer from Nine Inch Nails.
(5) In East Germany this was our hymn,” says one man.
(6) A hymn to the depravity of Edinburgh that balances the noble pursuance of art.
(7) He was not a Christian then: he had had the conventional upper-class socialisation of tedious hymns and meaningless sermons, which normally functions as a vaccine against religious fervour.
(8) !” singing hymns and other songs The women, who are a range of ages, have travelled from across Gauteng province and are and saying a prayer ahead of a planned march in the city centre.
(9) Chanting battle hymns, they jogged past buildings still pockmarked by clashes with US forces who occupied the area in 2008 and had fought running battles with the Mahdi army for most of the nine years that they remained in Iraq.
(10) A hymn of praise, and a word of warning,” the book has been compiled by two titans of pragmatic ecology, Nigel Holmes and Paul Raven.
(11) How can he, of all people, hymn bourgeois notions such as commitment and conjugal felicity?
(12) She was undergoing a bone-marrow transplant for leukaemia when I was writing Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and I went through a life-questioning crisis.
(13) The song – which cannot be described as great art - like many National Anthems including our own, is strident and solemn, and could be hymn.
(14) John Kampfner: Clegg has an opportunity now to strike out After Chairman Mao and the 1950s hymn book , the Liberal Democrats had the chance of offering something more modern and enticing than their rivals.
(15) The familiar biblical words, the quavering congregation working its way through Victorian hymns, the priest, who often has never met the deceased: all these deaden and distance.
(16) I know the hymns and I know the prayers and I know the good done by many Christians in the act of witness.
(17) The point is that Marine can have a clear-out, and everyone will now (more or less) sing from the same hymn sheet: hers.
(18) In Battle Hymn …, she writes that she was determined "not to raise a soft, entitled child – not to let my family fall".
(19) We stand up a lot in church, albeit tardily for the drearier hymns.
(20) There was even a chant of "Attack, attack, attack" from the Stretford End as the game kicked off as if in anticipation of the shackles of unadventurous football being thrown off, plus any number of favourite hymns to Giggs and Paul Scholes.
Praise
Definition:
(v.) To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud; -- applied to a person or his acts.
(v.) To extol in words or song; to magnify; to glorify on account of perfections or excellent works; to do honor to; to display the excellence of; -- applied especially to the Divine Being.
(v.) To value; to appraise.
(v.) Commendation for worth; approval expressed; honor rendered because of excellence or worth; laudation; approbation.
(v.) Especially, the joyful tribute of gratitude or homage rendered to the Divine Being; the act of glorifying or extolling the Creator; worship, particularly worship by song, distinction from prayer and other acts of worship; as, a service of praise.
(v.) The object, ground, or reason of praise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(2) Although they were praised in the last five years as the most efficient drugs against cancer and infectious diseases, no great success was clinically and experimentally reported in the past.
(3) In Experiment II, identification training, consisting of instructions, praise, feedback, and practice was introduced after baseline.
(4) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
(5) Israel’s president has told his Mexican counterpart that he was “sorry for the hurt” over a tweet in which the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, appeared to praise Donald Trump’s plans to build a wall on the US-Mexican border.
(6) There was praise for existing programmes such as the Ferguson Youth Initiative, which gives young people the chance to earn a bike or a computer.
(7) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
(8) He praised the obvious disgust of local people in parts of south and west Manchester, where gang problems have been concentrated.
(9) The letter praised the company's progress in responding to the inspection.
(10) After the event, McCray praised the duchess on Twitter for her passion on issues of mental health and early childhood development, saying “her warmth and passion for the cause was infectious”.
(11) The video is done in the style of a news report for Russia's Kremlin-controlled Channel One channel, which normally praises Putin in every broadcast.
(12) "The hollow words of praise from the home secretary are meaningless today.
(13) The current president of the supreme court, Lord Phillips, who steps down at the end of September, welcomed his successor, praising his "wealth of judicial experience" and "ability to lead a collegiate court".
(14) Thokozile Masipa, a 68-year-old former journalist who was only the second black woman to be appointed to the high court, was praised for her calm authority despite her controversial original verdict.
(15) At the hearing, committee chairman Senator Patrick Leahy, praised the secret service as "wise, very professional men and women", and called it shocking that so many of the agency's employees were involved in the scandal.
(16) Sometimes in the other team’s half, sometimes in front of his own box, sometimes as the last man.” Die Zeit singles out Bayern’s veteran midfielder Schweinsteiger for praise: “In this historic, dramatic and fascinating victory over Argentina , Schweinsteiger was the boss on the pitch.
(17) For now, Shimizu will not allow the children in her care to be interviewed and brushes off praise for her selflessness.
(18) Boris Johnson , the London mayor, got into hot water last week when he praised the value of greed as a spur to progress and controversially suggested some people struggle to get on in life because of their low IQs.
(19) It brought back Thatcher biographer Hugo Young's words for a front page portrait that offered criticism as well as praise for her legacy.
(20) Behind the scenes, at least, it appears Anelka has proved a welcome addition to the club's ranks, with Berahino, who scored the visitors' third goal with a fizzing drive, praising the veteran as a positive influence on his fellow frontmen.