pray

Speech parts

1. pray - Verb

2. pray - Adverb

4. Pray - Proper noun

Meaning

See Pry.

To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving.

To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.

To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.

To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

implore beg petition beseech supplicate request appeal ask worship urge invoke plead entreat importune sue
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Antonyms

shun answer respond reply deny acknowledge
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Hypernyms

commune plead

Hyponyms

insist crave importune supplicate

Phrases with the word

pray for pray to

Derivatives

prayed praying

Examples

I beg you to stop! Source: Internet

pray to the Lord Source: Internet

10. We pray that no man under the degree of a knight or esquire keep a dove house, except it hath been of an old ancient custom. Source: Internet

12. We pray that no feodary within your shores shall be a counselor to any man in his office making, whereby the king may be truly served, so that a man being of good conscience may be yearly chosen to the same office by the commons of the same shire. Source: Internet

13. We pray your grace to take all liberty of leet your own hands whereby all men may quietly enjoy their commons with all profits. Source: Internet

14. We pray that copyhold land that is unreasonable rented may go as it did in the first year of King Henry VII. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

praxist Praxitelean Praxiteles pray away the gay pray for pray in aid