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Another word for prayer

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Noun

  1. The act of praying

    See also:

    religion

  2. A formula of words used in praying

    See also:

    religion

  3. An earnest or urgent request

    See also:

    ask

  4. An application to a higher authority, as for sanction or a decision

    See also:

    law

    ask

  5. One who humbly entreats

    See also:

    request

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for prayer

Noun

  1. An earnest request

    See also:

    appeal

  2. An address to the deity

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • His companion's prayer is forgotten.

  • After a brief prayer, she opened her eyes and glanced up.

  • She closed her eyes and said another prayer before she clamped a sweaty hand around the cold door handle.

  • The Lord's prayer in signs is not the Lord's prayer in English.

  • She did not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting down in her easy chair, now taking her prayer book, now kneeling before the icon stand.

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