Crossword-Solution: HYMNOGRAPHER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hymnographer | n. | One who writes on the subject of hymns. |
| Hymnographer | n. | A writer or composed of hymns. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “HYMNOGRAPHER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| HYMN composer | 1 answer |
| HYMNS, composer of | 1 answer |
| COMPOSER of hymns | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HYMNOGRAPHER (5)
The last name of importance among the great hymn-writers of the Greek Church is that of Joseph the Hymnographer, who lived at Constantinople in the ninth century.
The hymnographer describes him as standing on the sea-shore, in the guise of a beautiful and richly-clothed youth, when Tyrrhenian pirates suddenly approach: they seize and bind him and drag him on board their vessel.
The hymnographer sings, and his hearers accept in perfect good faith, a history of the past; but it is a past, imagined partly as an introductory explanation to the present, partly as a means of glorifying the god.
Apollo himself descends from Olympus to make choice of a suitable site: the hymnographer knows a thousand other adventures of the god which he might sing, but he prefers this memorable incident, the charter and patent of consecration for the Delphian temple.
But Hermês (concludes the hymnographer, with frankness unusual in speaking of a god) “does very little good: he avails himself of the darkness of night to cheat without measure the tribes of mortal men.”[139] [139] Homer.