Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A service of prayer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- a. & n. from
pray , v. - (Zoöl.) a mantis, especially
Mantis religiosa . SeeMantis . - a wheel on which prayers are pasted by Buddhist priests, who then put the wheel in rapid revolution. Each turn in supposed to have the efficacy of an oral repetition of all the prayers on the wheel. Sometimes it is moved by a stream.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
prayer . - noun An act of saying a
prayer . - verb Present participle of
pray .
Etymologies
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Examples
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On Your Knee Pads Tebowing While watching a Broncos game at a Manhattan bar, Jared Kleinstein coined Tebowing, which he defined as praying "even if everyone else around you is doing something completely different."
Week in Words Erin McKean 2011
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While watching a Broncos game at a Manhattan bar, Jared Kleinstein coined Tebowing , which he defined as praying "even if everyone else around you is doing something completely different."
Tim Tebow: Denver's New Favorite Mensch Ben Cohen 2011
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She was rather fond of the exercise which she called praying -- taking a larger image of herself into her confidence.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various
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In order to compel its production, I might file a motion with the court asking (or in legalese, "praying") the court to force my opponent to cough up the object of my professional desire.
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In order to compel its production, I might file a motion with the court asking (or in legalese, "praying") the court to force my opponent to cough up the object of my professional desire.
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In order to compel its production, I might file a motion with the court asking (or in legalese, "praying") the court to force my opponent to cough up the object of my professional desire.
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If praying is just to calm and comfort myself and acknowledge the blessings in my life, then ok.
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Steele when you throw out the republican Minister in Arizona who is baptist minister preaching the words from his pulpit that are so shameful, and praying from the puplit that the president dies, just go read them on fox news?
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They're just amoral in praying for the continued suffering and lack of affordable health care for our citizens.
GOP challenging constitutionality of health bill mandate 2009
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The Jews foster family keeping the kitchen kosher or praying is not problem.
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