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| NOUN | 1 | prayer, supplication | The act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving) |
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| 2 | prayer, petition, orison | Reverent petition to a deity | |
| 3 | prayer, entreaty, appeal | Earnest or urgent request | |
| 4 | prayer | A fixed text used in praying | |
| 5 | prayer, supplicant | Someone who prays to God |
| Sounds | preh'r; prey'er |
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| Rhymes | affair, air, airfare, and 110 more rhymes in ehr... |
| assayer, ballplayer, Bayer, and 19 more rhymes in eyer... |
| Meaning | The act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving). |
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| Examples | "the priest sank to his knees in prayer" |
| Synonyms | supplication |
| Broader | worship |
| Narrower | devotion; blessing, benediction |
| Verbs | pray |
| Meaning | Reverent petition to a deity. |
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| Synonyms | petition, orison |
| Broader | request, asking |
| Narrower | prayer wheel; benediction, blessing; collect; commination; deprecation; grace, blessing, thanksgiving; intercession; invocation, supplication; requiescat |
| Verbs | pray |
| Meaning | Earnest or urgent request. |
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| Synonyms | entreaty, appeal |
| Broader | request, asking |
| Narrower | adjuration; demagoguery, demagogy; supplication, plea; solicitation; suit; courtship, wooing, courting, suit |
| Meaning | A fixed text used in praying. |
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| Broader | sacred text, sacred writing, religious writing, religious text |
| Narrower | Agnus Dei; Mass; Shema |
| Instances | Angelus; Ave Maria, Hail Mary; Canticle of Simeon, Nunc dimittis; Evening Prayer, evensong; Kol Nidre; Litany; Lord's Prayer |
| Verbs | pray |
| Meaning | Someone who prays to God. |
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| Synonyms | supplicant |
| Broader | religious person |
| Narrower | beadsman, bedesman |
| Verbs | pray |
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