prayer
the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving)
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,816 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 9,964 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving) also: supplication the priest sank to his knees in prayer
- reverent petition to a deity also: petition, orison
- earnest or urgent request also: entreaty, appeal an entreaty to stop the fightingan appeal for help
- a fixed text used in praying
- someone who prays to God also: supplicant
prayer in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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He fell on his knees before the little house and offered up a prayer.
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 02 · Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner · Chapter 1
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Her prayer is granted, and a white dove flies from her mouth and bears her soul to heaven.
The Dream · Émile Zola · Chapter 1
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Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended, Breathing from her lips of air.
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1
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Good Isis heare me this Prayer, though thou denie me a matter of more waight: good Isis I beseech thee Iras.
Antony and Cleopatra · William Shakespeare · Chapter 1
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His prophecy (first made when Odysseus set out for Troy) tallies with the prophecy of Teiresias, and the prayer of the Cyclops.
The Odyssey of Homer · 751? BCE-651? BCE Homer · Chapter 1