orison

[ awr-uh-zuhn, or- ]
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noun
  1. a prayer.

Origin of orison

1
1125–75; Middle English <Old French <Late Latin ōrātiōn- (stem of ōrātiō) plea, prayer, oration

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How to use orison in a sentence

  • Here, amid the cool stillness, the running water murmurs its unceasing orison.

    The Choice of Life | Georgette Leblanc
  • In the intervening period, it was for some years in the service of science, the noble orison that dispels the darkness.

    The Life of the Fly | J. Henri Fabre
  • This timing, therefore, of sacrifice and orison to the planetary hours, is pertinently and speakingly feigned by Chaucer.

  • And this joyous orison was the acceptable prayer that left the smile of peace upon her sleeping face.

    A Rose of a Hundred Leaves | Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
  • And who shall say that it is less ecstatic or less perfect in the little orison to Saint Ben?

    The Lyric | John Drinkwater

British Dictionary definitions for orison

orison

/ (ˈɒrɪzən) /


noun
  1. literary another word for prayer 1

Origin of orison

1
C12: from Old French oreison, from Late Latin ōrātiō, from Latin: speech, from ōrāre to speak

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