prayers
Spoken hopes heavenward
Prayers are words or thoughts addressed to a deity, often in petition, thanks, or worship: She said her prayers before bed.
The word extends to any earnest hope or wish: Our prayers are with the family.
Someone who doesn't have a prayer has no chance at all.
A prayer can also be the act itself: a moment of prayer.
Humble plea for help
- pleaFormal request or defense
- requestFormal act of seeking
- appealFormal review request
- entreatyEarnest, urgent request
invocation · intercession · beseeching · imploration · orison · litany · novena · petition
Beaded prayer counter
- mantraRepeated focus phrase
- chantingRhythmic repetitive vocalization
- kneelingLowering onto bent legs
- genuflectionKnee-bending act of reverence
liturgy · vespers · matins · compline · benediction · incense · candles · altar
Trust without proof
- pietySincere religious devotion
- reverenceProfound admiring respect
- adorationProfound loving regard
- venerationProfound admiring respect
devoutness · holiness · sanctity · fervor · zeal · dedication · commitment · spirituality
supplication
Humble plea for help
entreaty · invocation · intercession · beseeching · imploration · orison · litany · novena · petition · asking
rosary
Beaded prayer counter
genuflection · liturgy · vespers · matins · compline · benediction · incense · candles · altar · beads
faith
Trust without proof
veneration · devoutness · holiness · sanctity · fervor · zeal · dedication · commitment · spirituality · humility
comfort
Ease or soothing relief
- consolationComfort during distress
- peaceFreedom from disturbance
- serenityUndisturbed mental quietude
tranquility · refuge · hope · healing · strength · calm · relief · surrender · trust · assurance
congregation
Assembled group of worshippers
- assemblyConstructing from components
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- fellowshipMutual goodwill among companions
service · mass · jummah · minyan · sangha · choir · hymns · responses · amen · unison
- pleasplea, pleas, please, entreaty, petitions
- humble requestplease, beg, appeal, petition, entreaty
- ancient textsscrolls, scroll, Euclid's Elements, Epic of Gilgamesh, codex
- sacred textsBible, Vedas, Quran, Upanishads, Torah
- Epic Poetry Elementscantos, invocation, catalogues, funeral games, laments
- oral traditionsoral traditions, oral tradition, folktales, folklore, saga
prayerscommands
Authoritative orders given
demands · orders · dictates · edicts · ultimatums
prayerscurses
Sworn oaths or hexes
blasphemies · profanities · imprecations · maledictions · heresies
prayersanswers
Reactions to queries
blessings · revelations · miracles · dispensations · prophecies
- Friday prayersWeekly Islamic communal worship
- call to prayerReligious worship summons
- bedtime prayersDevotional words before sleep
- prayer beadsCounting aid for worship
- prayer bookText for religious devotions
- silent prayerVoiceless religious entreaty
prayer, prayed, prayerful, prayer card, prayer book, prayerfully, prayerfulness, prayer beads, prayer meeting