Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of praying; supplication; entreaty; hence, a prayer; an invocation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of praying; supplication; entreaty.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rare A
prayer or act ofpraying ; anearnest request.
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