Need another word that means the same as “prayer”? Find 12 synonyms and 30 related words for “prayer” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Prayer” are: appeal, entreaty, supplicant, supplication, orison, petition, invocation, intercession, devotion, religious worship, worship, religious observance
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “prayer” as a noun can have the following definitions:
appeal | A serious, urgent, or heartfelt request. An appeal for help. |
devotion | Feelings of ardent love. She was the epitome of wifely devotion. |
entreaty | Earnest or urgent request. An entreaty to stop the fighting. |
intercession | The action of saying a prayer on behalf of another. He only escaped ruin by the intercession of his peers with the king. |
invocation | (in the Christian Church) a form of words such as ‘In the name of the Father’ introducing a prayer, sermon, etc. His invocation of the ancient powers of Callanish. |
orison | Reverent petition to a deity. |
petition | Reverent petition to a deity. A divorce petition. |
religious observance | A member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience. |
religious worship | A member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience. |
supplicant | One praying humbly for something. We are equals and not supplicants begging for work. |
supplication | A prayer asking God’s help as part of a religious service. He fell to his knees in supplication. |
worship | The activity of worshipping. Worship of the Mother Goddess. |
appeal | Be attractive to. An appeal for help. |
beg | Acquire food or money from someone by begging. A piece of bread which I begged from a farmer. |
beseech | Ask for or request earnestly. They earnestly beseeched his forgiveness. |
buddhism | The teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire, that suffering ceases when desire ceases, and that enlightenment obtained through right conduct and wisdom and meditation releases one from desire and suffer. |
calvary | A hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified. |
church | Take a woman who has recently given birth to church for a service of thanksgiving. Don t be late for church. |
conjure | Implore (someone) to do something. She had forgotten how to conjure up the image of her mother s face. |
entreat | Ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something. His friends entreated him not to go. |
entreaty | An earnest or humble request. An entreaty to stop the fighting. |
implore | Beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something. I implore mercy. |
invocation | An incantation used to invoke a deity or the supernatural. His invocation of the ancient powers of Callanish. |
litany | A litany contained in the Book of Common Prayer. The patient recited a litany of complaints. |
majestically | With impressive beauty or scale. The steep slopes of the valley floor rise majestically skywards. |
monk | United States jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the bebop style (1917-1982. |
mosque | (Islam) a Muslim place of worship that usually has a minaret. |
offertory | An anthem accompanying the offertory. They donated the money to a collection which was brought up at the offertory. |
petition | Reverent petition to a deity. The organization is petitioning the EU for a moratorium on the patent. |
plea | An answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed. He changed his plea to not guilty. |
plead | Make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts. Don t go she pleaded. |
please | Used in polite requests or questions. It pleased him to be seen with someone in the news. |
pray | Address a deity a prophet a saint or an object of worship say a prayer. Pray to the Lord. |
priestess | A female priest of a non-Christian religion. |
solicitation | The act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money. A solicitation to the king for relief. |
suppliant | Making or expressing a plea, especially to someone in power or authority. A suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness. |
supplicant | One praying humbly for something. A supplicant serf before an ill tempered monarch. |
supplicate | Ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer. The plutocracy supplicated to be made peers. |
supplication | A prayer asking God’s help as part of a religious service. He fell to his knees in supplication. |
synagogue | A Jewish assembly or congregation. |
temple | A thing regarded as holy or likened to a temple especially a person s body. The veins in his temple throbbed. |
temporal | Characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world. Our temporal existence. |
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