Assertion: hymn | /r/HasProperty | ancient
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
value: doubtless
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The hymn was one of the exclamations of the fathers at the Council of Chalcedon (451), and is common not only to all the Greek Oriental liturgies but was used also in the Gallican Liturgy (see Saint Germain of Paris, d. 576), which shows that the hymn is ancient.
text: The Hymn is doubtless a very ancient form; but if no example of extreme antiquity survive this must be put down to the fact that until the age of literary consciousness, such things are not preserved.