Definition of "hymnbooks" [hymnbooks]

• Plural form of hymnbook. (noun)

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• "When pianos and organs became common in churches, a capella singing began to disappear, along with the complicated harmonies in the old hymnbooks."
• "Cook's group of more than a dozen interested singers sat facing Cook as the song leader, holding wide-page hymnbooks filled with notes in the shapes of open and solid squares, diamonds, triangles and ovals."
• "The songs may have archaic, cryptic names such as "Old Hundred," better known in many hymnbooks as the doxology; "Amazing Grace" appears in shape-note books as "New Britain.""