Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Offering a petition; supplicatory.
- Containing a petition or request.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Supplicatory; making a petition.
- adjective Containing a petition; of the nature of a petition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
supplicatory ; making apetition - adjective Containing a petition; of the nature of a petition.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of the nature of or expressing a petition
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Examples
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I don’t believe in petitionary or intercessory prayer.
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And as go wishes, so go petitionary and intercessory prayers.
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William James—the nineteenth-century American pioneer in psychology and the psychology of religion, specifically—argued that petitionary prayer would be a problematic practice for Christianity in the modern age.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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He was the most articulate, if not the first, American to predict that as petitionary prayer was brought forward into a science-based world, it would be seen increasingly as inelegant and intellectually embarrassing, especially when placed alongside the marvels of science and scientific medicine.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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Because we are not perfect and because our own desire for the safety of those we care for may overwhelm our sense of justice or duty, the Christian concludes a petitionary prayer with “Not my will but Thine, Lord.”
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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He was the most articulate, if not the first, American to predict that as petitionary prayer was brought forward into a science-based world, it would be seen increasingly as inelegant and intellectually embarrassing, especially when placed alongside the marvels of science and scientific medicine.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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William James—the nineteenth-century American pioneer in psychology and the psychology of religion, specifically—argued that petitionary prayer would be a problematic practice for Christianity in the modern age.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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Because we are not perfect and because our own desire for the safety of those we care for may overwhelm our sense of justice or duty, the Christian concludes a petitionary prayer with “Not my will but Thine, Lord.”
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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I remember a woman who came to Mass every day at Dolores Mission, and during the time of petitionary prayer she always said the same thing: Por los pecadores, para que ELLOS ...
Tattoos on the Heart Gregory Boyle 2010
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Because we are not perfect and because our own desire for the safety of those we care for may overwhelm our sense of justice or duty, the Christian concludes a petitionary prayer with “Not my will but Thine, Lord.”
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
bilby commented on the word petitionary
"I was hardly moved to come to thee; but being assured none but myself could move thee, I have been blown out of your gates with sighs; and conjure thee to pardon Rome and thy petitionary countrymen."
- William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'.
August 29, 2009