orison

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nounprayer

Synonyms for orison

noun prayer

Antonyms for orison

prayer

noun. pleading, especially with a deity;

prayers

noun. pleading, especially with a deity;

Word Origin & History

late 12c., from Anglo-French oreison, Old French oreisun (12c., Modern French oraison) "oration," from Latin orationem (nominative oratio) "speech, oration," in Church Latin "prayer, appeal to God," noun of action from orare (see orator). Etymologically, a doublet of oration.

Example Sentences for orison

When, if not now, 59shall we set about the orison of the peplus100 and chaplets?

Fauchelevent thought that it was an orison which she was finishing.

That mighty pause before the class,—that orison and benediction—how much of my life it has been and made.

It was, however, the best I could hit upon, and I directed my steps towards the Farnham orison.

It was the orison of Margaret Binkie as she descended to the breakfast-room.

In her hand she held a book of the time of Solomon and she was saying an orison to God.

Half an hour afterwards Dr. Orison returned to the guests and reported the woman to be out of danger.

Maria merely whispered the words of the orison and kept her eyes fastened on the ground.

This timing, therefore, of sacrifice and orison to the planetary hours, is pertinently and speakingly feigned by Chaucer.

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