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hymning

hymning is the present participle and gerund of hymn.

Meaning of hymn

Verb

hymn (third-person singular simple present hymns, present participle hymning, simple past and past participle hymned)

  1. (ambitransitive) To sing a hymn.
    • An unknown cast, including Diane Keaton, hymned the Age of Aquarius, stripped off at the end of the first act and let the sunshine in at the end of the second.2009 January 21, Michael Coveney, “Tom O'Horgan”, in The Guardian
  2. (transitive) To praise or extol in hymns.
    • To hymn the birth-night of the Lord.1827, [John Keble], The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J....

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Noun

hymning (plural hymnings)

  1. A singing of hymns.
    • His voice seemed sweeter than the hymnings raised / By brave and gentle souls in Paradise.1829, Robert Charles Sands, Princess Papatzin

Forms of hymning

pluralhymnings

Questions about hymning

What does hymning mean?
Hymning means a singing of hymns.
What is hymning the present participle and gerund of?
Hymning is the present participle and gerund of hymn.
What part of speech is hymning?
Hymning is a noun.
What is the plural of hymning?
The plural of hymning is hymnings.

Words near hymning in the dictionary

  1. hymner
  2. hymners
  3. hymnic
  4. hymnical
  5. hymnically
  6. hymning
  7. hymnings
  8. hymnist
  9. hymnists
  10. hymnless
  11. hymnlike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hymning (page history and authors); hymn (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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