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  • noun Alternative spelling of hosanna.

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Examples

  • Given THAT context, I really don't care if the remainder of the song is a hosannah to Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Benjamin Banneker, Nat Turner and Richard Pryor combined.

    Republicans Popping Up To Defend Saltsman For "Magic Negro" CD 2009

  • Children throw flowers before Him, sing, and cry hosannah.

    The Brothers Karamazov 2003

  • For what would have happened, I reflected, what would have happened after my hosannah?

    The Brothers Karamazov 2003

  • But nothing but hosannah is not enough for life, the hosannah must be tried in the crucible of doubt and so on, in the same style.

    The Brothers Karamazov 2003

  • Without criticism it would be nothing but one ‘hosannah.’

    The Brothers Karamazov 2003

  • He is soon caught in the swelling throng, his own head bare, his own voice blending in the Imperial hosannah.

    St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

  • Nature and art combine to celebrate the glory of the sovereign by a perpetual hosannah.

    The Story of Versailles Francis Loring Payne

  • I was trying my best to point out to him that the company would spend more than it would save if it sent me all the way out to the asteroids, a prospect I could feel coming and one which I wasn't ready to cry hosannah over.

    The Risk Profession Donald E. Westlake

  • I endured this tender pelting with the best grace I could command, though this was the first time I had ever been the centre of such a hosannah thunder-storm.

    St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

  • One would think that the world had just found Salvation, so loud and unctuous is its hosannah -- that Trilby was some new Caaba-stone or greater Palladium floated down from Heaven on the wings of Du Maurier's transcendent genius; that after waiting and watching for six thousand -- or million -- years, a perfect exemplar had been bequeathed to the world.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

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