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Hymn vs Regiment - What's the difference?

hymn | regiment |

As nouns the difference between hymn and regiment

is that hymn is a song of praise or worship while regiment is regiment (army unit).

As a verb hymn

is to sing (a hymn).

hymn

English

(wikipedia hymn)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A song of praise or worship.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • Derived terms

    * hymnal * hymnbook * hymnodist * hymnody * hymnology * hymnographer * hymnography

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To sing (a hymn).
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 21, author=Michael Coveney, title=Tom O'Horgan, work=The Guardian citation
  • , 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
  • To hymn the bright of the Lord.
  • * Byron
  • Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine.

    See also

    * theody ----

    regiment

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (military) A unit of armed troops under the command of an officer, and consisting of several smaller units; now specifically, usually composed of two or more battalions.
  • * 1901 , (Rudyard Kipling), Kim , III:
  • It was an old, withered man, who had served the Government in the days of the Mutiny as a native officer in a newly raised cavalry regiment .
  • * 2005 , Nicholas Watt & Michael White, The Guardian , 28 April 2005:
  • As the prime minister insisted that he had "never told a lie" in his life, the Tory leader attacked him for ordering Scottish troops into battle with no warning that their regiments would be disbanded.
  • * 1576 , (Abraham Fleming), translating Cicero, A Panoplie of Epistles , XXXIII:
  • What place is there in all the world, not subiect to the regiment and power of this citie?
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
  • Then loyall love had royall regiment , / And each unto his lust did make a lawe, / From all forbidden things his liking to withdraw.
  • * 1832 , , The Province of Jurisprudence Determined , VI:
  • And how is it possible to distinguish precisely […] the powers of ecclesiastical regiment' which none but the church should wield from the powers of ecclesiastical '''regiment (on the ''jus circa sacra ) which secular and profane governments may handle without sin?
  • (obsolete) The state or office of a ruler; rulership.
  • (obsolete) Influence or control exercised by someone or something (especially a planet).
  • (obsolete) A place under a particular rule; a kingdom or domain.
  • (Spenser)
  • (obsolete, medicine) A regimen.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form soldiers into a regiment.
  • To systematize, or put in rigid order.
  • Anagrams

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