Word Finder - prayed

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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.

She closed her eyes and prayed for his safe return.

Dean prayed it wouldn't land them both in jail.

She closed her eyes and prayed.

When Tessa left me I prayed every night that she would come back.

She prayed he accepted her apology.

She wished, prayed he got free and ended her.

Hands clasped, she prayed fervently, asking God not to let Destiny suffer for what they had done.

I prayed our stalwart group of five wasn't down to only me.

My mother sat beside my little bed and tried to soothe my feverish moans while in her troubled heart she prayed, "Father in Heaven, spare my baby's life!"

When she turned away, he blocked the view with his hands and prayed she had done the same to avoid witnessing his savagery.

She prayed he was joking about GPS tracking.

I just hoped and prayed somehow his contact of Ben or Howie could be used to locate us.

She woke and prayed fervently for an answer, and then fell asleep again - to the same nightmare.

I've prayed for him, but he is getting worse by the day.

At first she had hoped, even prayed he would return.

Clenching her hands together she prayed fervently.

Whatever happened next, Gabriel prayed the underworld didn't throw him out.

Ben feared there was a scintilla of doubt in his heart, so he prayed for faith.

The addict continued to use 12 times a day and prayed with every injection.

I prayed "provide for me and my family and I will do your work to help others" I had never done that before.

Lord, she prayed, please don't let them get Chauncey - and then she knew nothing.

She squeezed her eyes shut and prayed that romantic thoughts would cease to invade her newfound paradise.

I prayed our Delabama killer didn't stalk Agnes Delanco before she or her detectives tracked him down, quickly I hoped.

She still didn't quite trust he'd keep his word, but she prayed with every ounce of her soul that he did.

How many days, months, years had she prayed for a miracle like the one in her hand?

She prayed for Selyn to find her way home safely then led them through the portal into Hell.

He had no idea of the depth of the gorge or the length of the rope, but he prayed it was sufficient.

He prayed to all the deities he never, ever grew aloof and callous towards the humans.

Every inch of the way she prayed he would change his mind - but he didn't.

For the first time since meeting Jonny, she prayed everyone was right about the strange skill she had to remain invisible to them.

On the other hand, in spite of his worldliness, Leo was not an unbeliever; he prayed, fasted, and participated in the services of the church with conscientiousness.

The church offered the richest field for exploitation, and in spite of his dissolute life he impudently prayed the regent to give him the archbishopric of Cambray, the richest in France.

He declared, when answering a complaint that a certain captain in his regiment was a better preacher than fighter, that he who prayed best would fight best, and that he knew nothing could" give the like courage and confidence as the knowledge of God in Christ will."The superiority of these men - more intelligent than the common soldiers, better disciplined, better trained, better armed, excellent horsemen and fighting for a great cause - not only over the other parliamentary troops but over the royalists, was soon observed in battle.

The Jews prayed for his recovery and lamented him, The Gentile soldiers exulted in the downfall of his dynasty, which they signalized after their own fashion.

But he knew also that neighbouring nations looked with unquiet eyes on the progress of affairs in France, that they feared the influence of the Revolution on their own peoples, and that foreign monarchs were being prayed by the French emigres to interfere on behalf of the French monarchy.

Wissowa, Religion and Kultus der Romer (1902), according to whom Spes was originally not a garden goddess, but simply the divinity to whom one prayed for the fulfilment of one's desires.

There, too, according to Yasht, 5, 105, he prayed that he might succeed in converting King Vishtaspa.

Savonarola prayed with the two men, gave them his blessing, and exhorted them.

The fire was then kindled, and his voice as it audibly prayed in the words of the "Kyrie Eleison" was soon stifled in the smoke.

In point of doctrine they acknowledged the seven sacraments, but gave them a symbolical meaning; they prayed to the Virgin and saints, and admitted auricular confession, but they denied purgatory and the sacrifice of the mass, and did not observe fasts or festivals.

In vain Edward Gibbon Wakefield, organizer of colonizing associations, prayed and intrigued for permission to repeat in New Zealand the experiment tried by him in South Australia.

The family have on the preceding days solemnly visited the grave, and offered to the shades gifts of water, wine, milk, honey, oil, and the blood of black victims; they have decked the tomb with flowers, have renewed the feast and farewell of the funeral, and have prayed to the ancestors to watch over their welfare.

They prayed for the auditores, they blessed them and interceded for them, thereby shortening the process of purification the latter had to pass through after death.

Celtic altar-bell of hammered iron, known as the "Ronnell bell."' Such is the odour of sanctity of this venerable church that there is an old local saying that "to be thrice prayed for in the kirk of Birnie will either mend or end ye."

He took a leading part in Absalom's revolt, and his defection was a severe blow to the king, who prayed that God would bring his counsel to "foolishness."

In his third year he was taken up to London, inspected by the court surgeon, prayed over by the court chaplains and stroked and presented with a piece of gold by Queen Anne.

He prayed fervently against his idleness; he determined, as often as he received the sacrament, that he would no longer doze away and trifle away his time; but the spell under which he lay resisted prayer and sacrament.

The Moravian Anabaptists, says Rost, went bare-footed, washed each other's feet (like the Fraticelli), had all goods in common, worked everyone at a handicraft, had a spiritual father who prayed with them every morning and taught them, dressed in black and had long graces before and after meals.

They sat at long tables, the elders read the words of institution and prayed, and passed a loaf round from which each broke off a bit and ate, the wine being handed round in flagons.

The god prayed to at the instant of birth became the god of the child.