Hymn vs. Miserere — What's the Difference?

A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification. The word hymn derives from Greek ὕμνος (hymnos), which means "a song of praise".

The 51st Psalm.

A song of praise or thanksgiving to God or a deity.

A musical setting of this psalm.

A song of praise or joy; a paean.

A prayer for mercy.

To praise, glorify, or worship in or as if in a hymn.

An expression of lamentation or complaint.

To sing hymns.

See misericord.

A song of praise or worship, especially a religious one.

An expression of lamentation or complaint.

(ambitransitive) To sing a hymn.

A medieval dagger, used for the mercy stroke to a wounded foe; misericord.

(transitive) To praise or extol in hymns.

(architecture) A small projecting boss or bracket on the underside of the hinged seat of a church stall, intended to give some support to a standing worshipper when the seat is turned up; a misericord.

An ode or song of praise or adoration; especially, a religious ode, a sacred lyric; a song of praise or thanksgiving intended to be used in religious service; as, the Homeric hymns; Watts' hymns.

Ileus.

To praise in song; to worship or extol by singing hymns; to sing.

The psalm usually appointed for penitential acts, being the 50th psalm in the Latin version. It commences with the word miserere.

To sing in praise or adoration.

A musical composition adapted to the 50th psalm.

A song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)

A small projecting boss or bracket, on the under side of the hinged seat of a church stall (see Stall). It was intended, the seat being turned up, to give some support to a worshiper when standing. Called also misericordia.

Sing a hymn

Same as Ileus.

Praise by singing a hymn;