Meanings
nounhymnary (plural hymnaries)
plural hymnaries
- A book of hymns.
Bowring's best known hymn still finds a place in modern hymnaries but the second line might sound unfortunate—and undeserved—if sung now at a B.T.C. service: "Towering o'er the wrecks of time."
1960 March 28, N. Caplan, “The Railway Member of Parliament”, in Railway Magazine, page 208
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