noun
An earnest request
An address to the deity
Prayers, sense 2, include: Lord's Prayer, Pater Noster, Our Father, Hail Mary, Doxology, the Jesus prayer, Trisagion, Glory Be, Ave Maria, grace at meals, Kiddush, Kaddish, shma Yisroel, amidah (all Hebrew); matins, vespers, Angelus, Miserère, Kyrie eleison, Te Deum, collects, hours, rosary, novena, devotions, stations of the cross, evensong, compline.
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