Word Finder - pray

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To direct words and/or thoughts to God or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.

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Muslims pray in the direction of Mecca.

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To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.

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To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.

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To implore, to entreat, to request.

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Please; used to make a polite request.

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pray silence for…

In peace let us pray unto the Lord.

I thank you for it, and pray that God will bless you.

I came up here to pray for the most important things.

To what end, pray, is so much stone hammered?

Respected Jury and dearly beloved Ozma, I pray you not to judge this feline prisoner unfeelingly.

I pray they will have mercy on you for your assistance.

Oh, I do so hope and pray that I shall speak well some day!...

I pray to God Hannah doesn.t choose you as a mate!

They pray over their sick and, when so requested, anoint them with oil.

And so I pray God to have you, my friend, in His holy and powerful keeping--Your friend Helene.

There was nothing they could say or do about Martha's situation except to keep their telephone nearby and pray for the best.

I pray for them every day.

Or, you can stay here and pray no one ever finds out what you are.

I gaze from my window to the hill as I watch the warm glow from his home and pray he perhaps is thinking of me as I am thinking of him.

Well, pray if you like, but you had better think it over.

When they prayed for those who hate us, she tried to think of her enemies and people who hated her, in order to pray for them.

Softened by memories of Princess Mary he began to pray as he had not done for a long time.

She.d have to pray Rhyn didn.t drop by her mind when she thought of it, or when she was trying to figure out what to do.

Seth was the last child born to Adam; he grew in stature and strength, and began to fast and pray strenuously.

On a vacancy occurring, the dean and chapter notify the king thereof in chancery, and pray leave.to make election.

Once she did that, she could risk contacting Tim on her net and pray he reached her before Greenie or anyone else found her.

Wearing a jewelled crown, he stands before Abathur's door at the gate of the world of light; the Mandaeans accordingly invariably pray with their faces turned northward.

Thomas Maxwell, who was left to meet and pray with the members at the Foundery during the absence of the Wesleys, began to preach.

I will pray that you will come to discover the God who loves you in a way that perhaps your earthly father never could.

I pray we have the fortitude to carry on fighting.

The only way to pray without ceasing and to have maximum results in prayer is to be willing to practice self-denial where neccesary.

Simply put, we pray that things move ahead until that seventh trumpet is sounded.

Please pray that the Lord will help us to preserve that unity & that he will use this to His Glory.

I pray that you will look at them and take them at your own price.

It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

What company has that lonely lake, I pray?

How, pray, did he get these in midwinter?

I shall come to a place and pray there, and before having time to get used to it or getting to love it, I shall go farther.

He prayed with that passionate and shamefaced feeling with which men pray at moments of great excitement arising from trivial causes.

She knew that the sole weapon against him was prayer, and she tried to pray.

Yes, prayer can move mountains, but one must have faith and not pray as Natasha and I used to as children, that the snow might turn into sugar-- and then run out into the yard to see whether it had done so.

After he left, she went to her room and crouched beside the bed to pray.

Let's just pray it's a passing romance.

Besides, there was nothing she could do at this point – nothing but pray.

Maybe it was wrong to pray for a baby when he was so certain that it was impossible.

He immediately recalled his forced confession, and besought all Christian men " to pray for him, so that his tears might secure the pity of the Almighty."

Clowes, indeed, had been free from circuit work since 1827, and he continued to pray and preach as he was able till his death in March 1851.

Verrall (Journal of Hellenic Studies, xx., 1900, p. 115) explains it as a feast of "revocation" (from avaO o-aaaOat, to "pray back" or "up"), at which the ghosts of the dead were recalled to the land of the living (cp. the Roman mundus patet).

He shall pardon his wrongdoers, love his enemies, pray for them that calumniate and accuse him, offer the other cheek to the smiter, give up his mantle to him that takes his tunic, neither judge nor condemn.

Pray God for me that he give me his strength."

Thoroughgoing reconstruction in every item of theology and in every detail of polity there may be, yet shall the Christian life go on - the life which finds its deepest utterance in the words of Christ, " Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and thy neighbour as thyself "; the life which expresses its profoundest faith in the words Christ taught it to pray, "Our Father"; the life which finds its highest rule of conduct in the words of its first and greatest interpreter, " Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Persons neglecting for two terms to pray for a habeas corpus shall have none in vacation.

The last -that we hear of him is his humble entreaty to the Apostles to pray for him.

Years before, when he was very ill, and Tze-lu asked leave to pray for him, he expressed a doubt whether such a thing might be done, and added, " I have prayed for a long time."

According to the provisions of this statute, upon the avoidance of any episcopal see, the dean and chapter of the cathedral church are to certify the vacancy of the see to the crown, and to pray that they may be allowed to proceed to a new election.