orison
Words to God
An orison is a prayer.
The word is archaic or literary, appearing mainly in older religious texts and poetry: Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered.
Modern usage is rare outside historical or deliberately elevated contexts.
Deep, loyal commitment
- pietySincere religious devotion
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- meditationFocused attention practice
- reverenceProfound admiring respect
faith · holiness · veneration · sanctity · communion · grace · blessing · benediction
Formal written appeal
- intercessionActing on another's behalf
- supplicationHumble plea for help
- invocationCalling upon higher authority
- entreatyEarnest, urgent request
plea · appeal · beseeching · imploring · solicitation · adjuration
Address to deity
- supplicationHumble plea for help
- pleaFormal request or defense
- entreatyEarnest, urgent request
- invocationCalling upon higher authority
beseeching · archaic · Elizabethan · Shakespearean · soliloquy · apostrophe · hymn · psalm
devotion
Deep, loyal commitment
- pietySincere religious devotion
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- meditationFocused attention practice
reverence · faith · holiness · veneration · sanctity · communion · grace · blessing · benediction · benison
petition
Formal written appeal
- intercessionActing on another's behalf
- supplicationHumble plea for help
- invocationCalling upon higher authority
entreaty · plea · appeal · beseeching · imploring · solicitation · adjuration
prayer
Address to deity
- supplicationHumble plea for help
- pleaFormal request or defense
- entreatyEarnest, urgent request
invocation · beseeching · archaic · Elizabethan · Shakespearean · soliloquy · apostrophe · hymn · psalm · canticle
matins
Liturgical dawn devotions
breviary · collect · litany · rosary · chaplet · devotions · evensong · novena · sext · none
orisoncurse
Invoked harm through words
malediction · anathema · imprecation · execration · hex
orisonanswer
Solution to query
revelation · oracle · pronouncement · commandment · demand