What is "hymnlike"

Usage examples of "hymnlike".

This introduction to the third act recalls the introduction to the first, which also begins with the hymnlike phrase, and sets the key-note of pathos which is sounded at every dramatic climax, though pages of hurdy-gurdy tune and unmeaning music intervene.

There were more of the chanting vampires behind, and their hymnlike tones carried up the tunnel and echoed around the cave.

I remember the organ played a hymnlike melody that was hauntingly familiar.