Hymnody Definition

hĭmnə-dē
hymnodies
noun
hymnodies
The singing of hymns.
Webster's New World
Hymns collectively.
Webster's New World

Hymnology.

Webster's New World
The hymns of a particular period or church.
American Heritage
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Noun

Singular:
hymnody
Plural:
hymnodies

Origin of Hymnody

  • From Old French hymnodie, from Latin hymnodia, from Ancient Greek ὑμνῳδία (humnōidia), from ὑμνῳδέω (humnōideō, “I sing a hymn”), from ὕμνος (humnos, “song of praise”) + ἀείδω (aeidō, “I sing”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Medieval Latin hymnōdia from Greek humnōidiā humnos hymn ōidē song wed-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Hymnody Sentence Examples

  • The foundation of his future work as the father of Methodist hymnody was laid in Georgia.

  • The new book was a brave attempt to raise the quality of English hymnody.

  • In the course of his labours as editor of this volume he was struck by the unity which was presented by Christian hymnody, "binding together by the force of a common attraction, more powerful than all causes of difference, times ancient and modern, nations of various race and language, Churchmen and Nonconformists, Churches reformed and unreformed" (Preface).

  • In the same field of literature Lord Selborne further laboured by the publication of another collection called The Book of Praise Hymnal; a contribution to an edition of Bishop Ken's hymns; a paper on English Church Hymnody at a Church Congress; and the article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica on "Hymns" (q.v.), which was republished as a separate volume in 1892.

  • So had the Reformation, but that did not stop new vernacular hymnody from becoming one of its enduring fruits.

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