(v. i.) The act of praying, or of asking a favor; earnest request or entreaty; hence, a petition or memorial addressed to a court or a legislative body.
(v. i.) The act of addressing supplication to a divinity, especially to the true God; the offering of adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving to the Supreme Being; as, public prayer; secret prayer.
(v. i.) The form of words used in praying; a formula of supplication; an expressed petition; especially, a supplication addressed to God; as, a written or extemporaneous prayer; to repeat one's prayers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tolokonnikova was given a two-year sentence for her part in Pussy Riot's "punk prayer" in Moscow's largest cathedral, calling on the Virgin Mary to "kick out Putin".
(2) The Chiefs chairman and chief executive, Clark Hunt, released a statement that said: "Our thoughts and prayers remain with the families and everyone affected by the heartbreaking events of last Saturday.
(3) Tragedy was averted because there was a little delay as the prayers did not commence in earnest and the bomb strapped to the body of the girl went off and killed her,” he added.
(4) His "Oh God" prayer was actually written after the England team failed in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa but is likely to be useful in all future tournaments as well.
(5) King was 16th on an official programme that included the national anthem, the invocation, a prayer, a tribute to women, two sets of songs and nine other speakers.
(6) Video of Mecca pilgrim on 'hoverboard' divides opinion Read more The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, whose country is home to tens of millions of Muslims, said on Twitter: “My thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who lost their lives in the crane crash in Mecca.
(7) In the silence, I heard a car reversing in the courtyard and then the Þrst slow notes of the call to prayer.
(8) US agricultural secretary Tom Vilsack said: "I get on my knees every day, and I'm saying an extra prayer right now.
(9) Our fast will continue for as long as we prayerfully discern that we stand in need of repentance as a Church.
(10) They marched to the police roadblock, and performed a 21-gun salute for a fallen veteran and a prayer ceremony on the bridge.
(11) Pittman later told the AFP news agency: “She wanted to pay tribute, she loves this city.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Madonna and son David sing Like a Prayer at the place de la République in Paris.
(12) "The thoughts and prayers of all in the taskforce are with his family and friends at this tragic time."
(13) He looks heavenward in prayer: "Pardon, Richard; they know not what they do."
(14) "Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends at this very sad time."
(15) The prayer appeals for “grace to debate the issues in this referendum with honesty and openness”.
(16) For example, he is able to use the school's washing facilities and do a daily prayer at lunchtime if he wishes, entirely at his own discretion.
(17) He was speaking as 670 bishops prepared to leave the University of Kent campus after 18 days of reflection, prayers, conversations and efforts to hold a divided communion together.
(18) In the past week, much has been made of her quoting St Francis of Assisi's prayer, in her first words from Downing Street in 1979.
(19) We ask all of you to hold the victims, their families, and all those affected in your hearts and prayers.” Take That, who were playing a show at the Liverpool Echo Arena when the attack happened, cancelled the following night’s show in the city and postponed the dates they were due to play in Manchester on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
(20) In Paris Femen activists protested nude in front of the Tunisian embassy, mimicking the Muslim prayer in the street.
Sermon
Definition:
(n.) A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer.
(n.) Specifically, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of religious instruction and grounded on some text or passage of Scripture.
(n.) Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
(v. i.) To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon.
(v. t.) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
(v. t.) To tutor; to lecture.
Example Sentences:
(1) As plantation owners go, Ford is a kindly sort: he delivers sermons and permits his slaves moments of humanity, even giving Northup a violin.
(2) As over-the-top as Ray Lewis often seems in his sermonizing give him this: when football is at its most dramatic it really does at least feel like there's something akin to a divine plan at work.
(3) 'If they want a war of religions, we are ready,' Hassan Sharaf, an imam in Nablus, said in his sermon.
(4) If it felt like an epiphany for Benn, it was more like a Sermon on the Mount to his Labour colleagues.
(5) "I acknowledge that Superman sermon notes are definitely not for every pastor or church setting.
(6) The elusive Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , who on 29 June proclaimed a "caliphate" straddling Syria and Iraq, made his appeal in a sermon delivered on Friday, in the militant-held northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
(7) The grace that Reverend Pinckney would preach about in his sermons.
(8) • • • As I am leaving Rock Springs behind me, fiddling with the radio to find something other than pop music, Christian sermons, commercials or Christmas songs, I think back to what Alex said about his hope that Donald Trump would bring change.
(9) The unresolved problem, as King complained a year ago at Mansion House, was that the Bank had become like a vicar whose congregation attends weddings and burials but ignores the sermons in between.
(10) Not for him Mr Osborne’s crowd-pleasing flourishes or Gordon Brown’s sermons from the manse.
(11) A vicar of Waresley used to visit this wood every week for divine inspiration, walking the paths, writing sermons in his head.
(12) At a small store on the side of the road, young men sat at computers copying the sermons of Awlaki, the al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and other household names of the global jihad.
(13) A man purporting to be the leader of the Sunni extremist group that has declared an Islamic state in territory it controls in Iraq and Syria has made what would be his first public appearance, delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq's second-largest city, according to a video posted online on Saturday.
(14) April 2002 Police in Germany find recordings of some of his radical sermons in a home used by some of the September 11 attackers.
(15) In a sermon earlier this week, the radical cleric called for a widening of the violent insurrection in Libya, encouraging "revolutionaries" to target Bayda, the home of the government, and Tobruk, where parliament has fled to.
(16) In his Easter sermon at Canterbury Cathedral, Justin Welby said: “In the shadow of Brussels, with the memory of Srebrenica, hope can seem far, far away.
(17) He said: “They gave us their sermon, their speech, the why they were there.
(18) He was not a Christian then: he had had the conventional upper-class socialisation of tedious hymns and meaningless sermons, which normally functions as a vaccine against religious fervour.
(19) He’s also a convert to Catholicism whose conservative zeal possibly outstrips the pope’s, a master of the upper-middlebrow reactionary style originated by William F Buckley, and the owner of a Twitter account specializing in bad predictions and more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger sermonizing.
(20) Then the delivery, reminding me by the end of my mother's out-of-body sermon crescendos as she preached with me in tow from church to Pentecostal church.