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   prayer

   /prɛː/

   noun

   • 1. a solemn request for help or expression of thanks addressed to God or another deity: "I'll say a prayer for him" Similar invocationintercessiondevotionarchaic:orison
   • ▪ a religious service, especially a regular one, at which people gather in order to pray together: "500 people were detained as they attended Friday prayers"
   • ▪ an earnest hope or wish: "it is our prayer that the current progress on human rights will be sustained"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French preiere, based on Latin precarius ‘obtained by entreaty’, from prex, prec- ‘prayer’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. prayerless adjective

   Scrabble Points: 11

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