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1. The act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving)
   "the priest sank to his knees in prayer";
   - supplication
    
2. Reverent petition to a deity
   - petition, orison [archaic]
    
3. Earnest or urgent request
   - entreaty, appeal, suppliance
    
4. A fixed text used in praying
    
5. Someone who prays to God
   - supplicant

Derived forms: prayers

Type of: asking, religious person, religious text, religious writing, request, sacred text, sacred writing, worship

Encyclopedia: Prayer, the Lord's