[
US
/ˈpɹeɪɝ, ˈpɹɛɹ/
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NOUN
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the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving)
the priest sank to his knees in prayer - someone who prays to God
- reverent petition to a deity
- a fixed text used in praying
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earnest or urgent request
an entreaty to stop the fighting
an appeal for help
an appeal to the public to keep calm
How To Use prayer In A Sentence
- The dozen pictures she had shot during a recent bath time -- including a few of Nora rinsing with a handheld shower sprayer -- were, for Cynthia, simply part of the vast photographic record she was keeping of her family's life. Lynn Powell: Pornographer or Soccer Mom?
- Their prayers were answered and the child was found safe and well.
- God answers our prayers because by addressing them to Him we acknowledge His Lordship and power.
- I thought I could bestow beauty like a benediction and that your half-dark flesh would answer to the prayer.
- No wonder the guy muttering the prayers over the burial plot has a wireless phone receiver permanently fixed to his right ear. Times, Sunday Times
- It is, in my judgment, a very laudable course of some churches, that use, for the next three days together, to desire the congregation to join in earnest prayer to God for the opening of the sinner's eyes, and the softening of his heart, and the saving of him from impenitency and eternal death. The Reformed Pastor
- The night was spent in prayer.
- The second section of an ancient Greco - Roman letter was prayer or a word of thanks.
- Now the word "prayer" to non-Muslim readers will evoke an image of people perhaps silently clasping their hands together, leaning forward in a pew, and either silently, to themselves, or in a quiet tone, speaking heartfeltly to God. David Horowitz Freedom Center
- For if I pray in an unknown tongue , my spirit prayer, but my understanding is unfruitful.