What is "hymnist"

Usage examples of "hymnist".

This would indicate that the hymnist had no thought of him being on earth beforehand, bearing such a name.

When it got caught up in the spread of the Christ cult and turned into sacred scripture, Christians ever afterwards have been forced to try to determine what the hymnist might have meant.

Daniel Rowlands of Llangeitho, and Howel Harris of Trevecca, both theretofore eminent ministers of the Established Church, with whom he became a successful co-operator, not only as an eloquent preacher, but especially as the most celebrated Hymnist of Wales.

Then followed, in successive tides, from England, the copious hymnody of the Methodist revival, both Calvinist and Wesleyan, of the Evangelical revival, and now at last of the Oxford revival, with its affluence of translations from the ancient hymnists, as well as of original hymns.