Definition of "hymnbook" [hymnbook]

• See hymnal. (noun)

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• "The book of Psalms, for example, is the "hymnbook" of the Bible, while Proverbs gives us practical lessons for daily living."
• "You have no real life experience to guide you – cloistered against the world in your middle-upper class upbringing, and using only your Young Republican hymnbook to sing from."
• "Looking ahead to 2012, it is not yet clear how much Perry's invocation of sectarian religion has hurt his chances among Independents in the general election, and whether he will be inclined to see the need to exchange his sectarian song sheet for a civil religion hymnbook."