Definitions for hymnist

hymnist hym·nist

Spelling: [him-nist]
IPA: /ˈhɪm nɪst/

Hymnist is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 135 anagrams from letters in hymnist (himnsty).

Definitions for hymnist

noun

  1. a composer of hymns.

Origin of hymnist

First recorded in 1615-25; hymn + -ist

Examples for hymnist

“Come, ye disconsolate” was so changed by Thomas Hastings, the great American hymnist, that it almost became a new hymn.

The greatest Lutheran hymnist of the seventeenth century, and perhaps of all time, was Paul Gerhardt.

Ephraem was the greatest teacher of his time in the Syrian Church, and her most prolific and able hymnist.

Next to Gerhardt, there is no German hymnist whose name is so frequently found in hymn-books today as that of Schmolck.

As in a thousand other partnerships of hymnist and musician, Dr. Rankin was fortunate in his composer.

He was no hymnist, though he did now and then venture into sacred metre.

James Montgomery, the noted English hymnist, was a member of the Moravian communion.

It was not without reason, therefore, that Montgomery became the first English hymnist to sound the missionary trumpet.

Word Value for hymnist
Scrable

15

Words with friends

15

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