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  • noun UK A book containing a collection of hymns.

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  • noun a songbook containing a collection of hymns

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Examples

  • The book of Psalms, for example, is the "hymnbook" of the Bible, while Proverbs gives us practical lessons for daily living.

    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette stories 2008

  • That is, the new survey also shows that Americans aren't all singing from the same hymnbook on the related issue of the morality and efficacy of torture of suspected terrorists.

    Robert P. Jones, Ph.D.: Bin Laden's Death: When Bad Things Happen To Bad People Ph.D. Robert P. Jones 2011

  • You have no real life experience to guide you – cloistered against the world in your middle-upper class upbringing, and using only your Young Republican hymnbook to sing from.

    Matthew Yglesias » Too Much Prison 2009

  • That is, the new survey also shows that Americans aren't all singing from the same hymnbook on the related issue of the morality and efficacy of torture of suspected terrorists.

    Robert P. Jones, Ph.D.: Bin Laden's Death: When Bad Things Happen To Bad People Ph.D. Robert P. Jones 2011

  • People's heads should not be buried in a hymnbook at the beginning of Mass.

    What to do for starters? 2009

  • Looking ahead to 2012, it is not yet clear how much Perry's invocation of sectarian religion has hurt his chances among Independents in the general election, and whether he will be inclined to see the need to exchange his sectarian song sheet for a civil religion hymnbook.

    Robert P. Jones, Ph.D.: Rick Perry and the Perils of Sectarian Religion in 2012 Ph.D. Robert P. Jones 2011

  • When Unitarianism in Britain officially began, it was not long before it attracted the attention of one Iolo Morganwg, who had earlier written a huge collection of material for the nascent Druid movement, and went on to become a Unitarian minister and to write many of the hymns used in the Welsh Unitarian hymnbook.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • When Unitarianism in Britain officially began, it was not long before it attracted the attention of one Iolo Morganwg, who had earlier written a huge collection of material for the nascent Druid movement, and went on to become a Unitarian minister and to write many of the hymns used in the Welsh Unitarian hymnbook.

    Pagan tendencies in Unitarianism 2009

  • Ellie, they already considered it back in the 1970s thus the disaster that was the joint Anglican-United red hymnbook.

    Heading over the cliff together « Anglican Samizdat 2009

  • It probably does deserve a mention, if only to note that if Wilentz, Marsh and Davis are all singing from this same page of the hymnbook, it seems safe to conclude that this he's-reverse-race-baiting theme is Mark Penn's newest stroke of strategic brilliance.

    Lanny Davis: It's Hard To Criticize Obama "Without Being Accused Of Playing Race Card" 2009

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