as in hymnal
a book of hymns
a worshipper who knew the words of all the church songs and didn't need a hymnbook
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Recent Examples of hymnbook
Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff Some traditional songs arrived with the European migrants who brought their fiddles and hymnbooks to Appalachia and other regions.
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Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2024
Singers sought for new hymnal (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Latter-day Saint soloists and choral singers are needed to help record songs for the new hymnbook, which is part of the church's digital sacred musical collection.
—David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
This inspiration is depended on throughout the church, from top to bottom, from prophet and apostles to choir directors and hymnbook coordinators.
—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 May 2022
Back in Texas, Gail would entertain family guests by standing on the bench at the family piano and singing from the Baptist hymnbook.
—Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Apr. 2022
This strain of eliminationism is not simply a derangement of the political right; the notes sounded by the dollars versus deaths brigade come straight from the liberal hymnbook.
—Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 18 May 2020
Other Three-Self churches had hymnbooks, gospel pamphlets and Bibles confiscated and burned, according to Bitter Winter, a religious liberty magazine focused on China.
—Fox News, 28 Oct. 2019
Throughout the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, most hymnbooks were exclusively textual: little books of poems, in essence.
—Barton Swaim, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2018
Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2024
Singers sought for new hymnal (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Latter-day Saint soloists and choral singers are needed to help record songs for the new hymnbook, which is part of the church's digital sacred musical collection.
—David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
This inspiration is depended on throughout the church, from top to bottom, from prophet and apostles to choir directors and hymnbook coordinators.
—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 May 2022
Back in Texas, Gail would entertain family guests by standing on the bench at the family piano and singing from the Baptist hymnbook.
—Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Apr. 2022
This strain of eliminationism is not simply a derangement of the political right; the notes sounded by the dollars versus deaths brigade come straight from the liberal hymnbook.
—Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 18 May 2020
Other Three-Self churches had hymnbooks, gospel pamphlets and Bibles confiscated and burned, according to Bitter Winter, a religious liberty magazine focused on China.
—Fox News, 28 Oct. 2019
Throughout the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, most hymnbooks were exclusively textual: little books of poems, in essence.
—Barton Swaim, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hymnbook
hymnal
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Worship music gained traction in the late ’70s and ’80s, when seminal CCM songwriters like Rich Mullins modernized the classic Protestant hymnal structure by combining it with the aesthetics of modern Black gospel, emphasizing a soaring, anthemic rock chorus that everyone could sing along to.—
Aja Romano,
Vox,
8 July 2025
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Walking the line of banger and hymnal always felt like something only Kesha could do.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
8 July 2025
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“Hymnbook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hymnbook. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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