orison
a prayer.
Origin of orison
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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 LeblancIn 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 FabreThis 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 BarrAnd 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
/ (ˈɒrɪzən) /
literary another word for prayer 1
Origin of orison
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