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Hymn vs. Miserere

Difference Between Hymn and Miserere

Hymn

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".
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Miserere

The 51st Psalm.
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Hymn

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

A musical setting of this psalm.
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Hymn

A song of praise or joy; a paean.
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Miserere

A prayer for mercy.
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Hymn

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

An expression of lamentation or complaint.
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Hymn

To sing hymns.
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Miserere

See misericord.
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Hymn

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

An expression of lamentation or complaint.
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Hymn

(ambitransitive) To sing a hymn.
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Miserere

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

(transitive) To praise or extol in hymns.
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Miserere

(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.
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Hymn

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.
Admonishing one another in psalms and hymns.
Where angels first should practice hymns, and stringTheir tuneful harps.
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Miserere

Ileus.
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Hymn

To praise in song; to worship or extol by singing hymns; to sing.
To hymn the bright of the Lord.
Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine.
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Miserere

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

To sing in praise or adoration.
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Miserere

A musical composition adapted to the 50th psalm.
Where only the wind signs miserere.
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Hymn

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

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.
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Hymn

sing a hymn
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Miserere

Same as Ileus.
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Hymn

praise by singing a hymn;
They hymned their love of God
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