The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hymning \Hymn"ing\, a.
Praising with hymns; singing. ``The hymning choir.''
--G.
West.
Hymning \Hymn"ing\, n.
The singing of hymns.
--Milton.
Hymn \Hymn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hymned; p. pr. & vb. n. Hymning.] [Cf. L. hymnire, Gr. ?.] To praise in song; to worship or extol by singing hymns; to sing.
To hymn the bright of the Lord.
--Keble.
Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine.
--Byron.
Wiktionary
n. A singing of hymns. vb. (present participle of hymn English)
Usage examples of "hymning".
And they and their children will feast, drinking of the wine which they have made, wearing garlands on their heads, and hymning the praises of the gods, in happy converse with one another.
He went the rounds of Jerusalem’s taverns and homes with his lute, sometimes hymning the kindness of God, sometimes singing the nudity of women.
And when the time came you'll have to help me here he told her, easing a leg over the side if she'd just hold his shoulders so he wouldn't slip, arched over him in the steam easing him down, the full size of her hands flushed red in the water cradling the dead white shimmer of his thighs going under, wisps of tow brushing her throat in the trickle of perspiration arched over him easing him down where the merest token tumescence broke the surface, the transparent falsity he'd choked on in that cramped overheated sixty dollar seat where the curtain went up on a chorus line cavorting down the stage hymning the mockery of tits and ass no, here over him laboured the sweated splendour of buttocks and breasts intruding the abrupt image of milking her into the morning tea, where might he have read that?
However, if I must, bring me a tablet whiter than a star, or hand of hymning angel.
From the jukebox, the tinny whine of steel guitars backed a syrupy nasal voice hymning adultery.