Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A writer or composer of hymns; a hymnist.
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An earlier Unitarian hymn-writer, William Channing Gannett (1840-1923) also referenced other faiths in one of his hymns; he was a Transcendentalist, and after the American Civil War worked for several years on projects related to the newly-freed slaves (Lewis, 2006).
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For he is not just a hymn-writer, but a leading proponent of a scarily hard-edged theology of spiritual warfare in which the earth is crawling with demons.
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This one's interesting because it lists hymns by author, and gives some introductory information about the hymn-writer.
Archive 2008-06-01 bls 2008
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This one's interesting because it lists hymns by author, and gives some introductory information about the hymn-writer.
Still another Google Books hymn find bls 2008
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For he is not just a hymn-writer, but a leading proponent of a scarily hard-edged theology of spiritual warfare in which the earth is crawling with demons.
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An earlier Unitarian hymn-writer, William Channing Gannett (1840-1923) also referenced other faiths in one of his hymns; he was a Transcendentalist, and after the American Civil War worked for several years on projects related to the newly-freed slaves (Lewis, 2006).
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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The new feast was not long in finding a hymn-writer to embody in immortal Latin the emotions called forth by the memory of the
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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Some hymn-writer may arise whose note will be as sweet as that of the much loved singer, Dr. Horatius
Great Britain and Her Queen Annie E. Keeling
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Robert Burns, by his genius for perfect statement, can give immortality to the joys of being drunk with whiskey as the average hymn-writer cannot give immortality to the joys of being drunk with the love of God.
The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914
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It is contended that, however well known and highly esteemed the works of the saint, there is little in this particular passage to strike the fancy of a hymn-writer, while it would be a very natural thing for a prose writer to borrow some expressions from such a widely-sung hymn as the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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