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prayer meeting

[ prair ]

noun

  1. a meeting chiefly for prayer.
  2. (in certain Protestant churches) a meeting in midweek, chiefly for individual prayer and the offering of testimonies of faith.


prayer meeting

/ prɛə /

noun

  1. Protestantism a religious meeting at which the participants offer up prayers to God


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Word History and Origins

Origin of prayer meeting1

First recorded in 1810–20

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Example Sentences

Three years ago I met Svetlana Gorohovik, a young activist, at the prayer meeting outside the Red Church.

Jim Bob, who served two terms in the Arkansas state legislature, attended a weekly prayer meeting with Huckabee.

Raymond promptly stole it from a church parking lot during Wednesday night prayer meeting and sold it to a chop shop near Tupelo.

In the middle of a prayer meeting, Jindal claimed that Susan collapsed and began convulsing on the floor.

One of my expense items, I remember, was ‘After-prayer-meeting snack, Tuskegee, $3.75.’

Only about twenty-five, who assembled on the southern side of the chapel, joined the prayer meeting.

Two services are held in the chapel on Sundays, and on a Wednesday evening there is a prayer meeting.

They had no chaplain; but they established a prayer-meeting, holding it beside a stump, in a retired place.

And a weekly prayer-meeting was held at his house on Monday evenings, as it had formerly been held in old Max's back parlour.

Suddenly a hymn was started by a voice which every one knew, though they seldom heard it in prayer-meeting.

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