thanksgiving prayer
Gratitude before eating
A thanksgiving prayer is a prayer expressing gratitude, typically offered before meals or during religious services.
The term appears most often in connection with Thanksgiving Day in the United States, where families gather and someone offers thanks for blessings received: Who wants to say the thanksgiving prayer this year?
- gratitudeThankfulness for kindness received
- give thanksExpress appreciation verbally
- count blessingsAcknowledge one's good fortune
- invocationCalling upon higher authority
- benedictionFormal spoken blessing
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- worshippraying, adoration, praise God, hallelujah, genuflection
- Christian prayerOur Father, amen, intercession, supplication, supplications
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thanksgiving prayerpetition
Formal written appeal
supplication · prayer request · intercessory prayer · beseeching · entreaty
thanksgiving prayerlamentation
Passionate expression of grief
thanksgiving prayercurse
Invoked harm through words
cursing · blasphemy · profanity · malediction · imprecation