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Definition of Prayers
1. prayer [n] - See also: prayer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prayers
Literary usage of Prayers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"When this is finished, the celebrant sings a long series of prayers for ...
The above order of lessons, chants, and prayers for Good Friday is found in our ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"All the liturgical prayers of the Church are public, as are all the prayers which
... These public prayers are usually offered in places set apart for this ..."
3. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"... prayers on the very place where their Jiul; appeared to them when he pronounced
their sentence. Repairing, where he judged them, prostrate fell Before ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"The tops of the highest mountains are the places chosen for sacrifices. Hymns and
prayers are the principal worship ; the supreme God who fills the wide ..."
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