hymnography

noun

hymnography

noun

Etymology From hymn + -o- + -graphy.

1

The art of composing hymns.

  • Parallel to this - and at the same time - hymnography flourishes, reaching its high point at the end of the first millennium.2005, Maria Vasilakē, Images of the Mother of God: Perceptions of the Theotokos in Byzantium, →ISBN, page 76:
Related terms
hymnographer, hymnographical, hymnographically

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