Hymn vs False - What's the difference?
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A song of praise or worship.
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*:But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat’s-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
To sing (a hymn).
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 21, author=Michael Coveney, title=Tom O'Horgan, work=The Guardian
, passage=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. }}
To praise or extol in hymns.
* Keble
* Byron
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun hymn
is a song of praise or worship.As a verb hymn
is to sing (a hymn).As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.hymn
English
(wikipedia hymn)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* hymnal * hymnbook * hymnodist * hymnody * hymnology * hymnographer * hymnographyVerb
(en verb)citation
- To hymn the bright of the Lord.
- Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine.
See also
* theody ----false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}
