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noun

Prayer n.

The act of praying, or of asking a favor; earnest request or entreaty; hence, a petition or memorial addressed to a court or a legislative body. "Their meek preyere."

The act of addressing supplication to a divinity, especially to the true God; the offering of adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving to the Supreme Being; as, public prayer; secret prayer. "As he is famed for mildness, peace, and prayer."

The form of words used in praying; a formula of supplication; an expressed petition; especially, a supplication addressed to God; as, a written or extemporaneous prayer; to repeat one's prayers. "He made those excellent prayers which were published immediately after his death."

Prayer book, a book containing devotional prayers.

Prayer meeting, a meeting or gathering for prayer to God.

Synonyms: Petition; orison; supplication; entreaty; suit.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Prayer book" Quotes from Famous Books

... how sui generis, is the style of Shakespeare, or of the Protestant Bible and Prayer Book, or of Swift, or of Pope, or of Gibbon, or ...

— On The Art of Reading • Arthur Quiller-Couch

... he had left his small prayer book on the Communion table in the morning; he turned, and asked the butler to get it for him before he blew out the ...

— Carnacki, The Ghost Finder • William Hope Hodgson

... Fitzgerald, reproduced in Trials of Eight Persons, he gives us a quaint glimpse of the pirates' psychology during this night of peril: "And in their Distress the [Pirates] ask'd the Deponent to Read to them the Common-Prayer Book, which he did about an Hour; And at break of Day they found the Shoar-side of ...

— Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period - Illustrative Documents • Various

... sir, said I, I will set about a reformation this instant. He saw the common-prayer book lying in the window. I hope, said he, my lovely maiden has been conning the lesson she is by-and-by to repeat. Have you not, Pamela? and clasped his arms about me, and kissed me. Indeed, sir, said ...

— Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded • Samuel Richardson

... the sunny land of commonsense. It is more, it is a place that has a very definite religion; it is, in fact, really the child's land of Christ. Take the lesson of Cinderella, says Chesterton; it is really the teaching of the Prayer Book that the humble shall be exalted, because humility ...

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Patrick Braybrooke

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