orison

[awr-uh-zuh n, or-]

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noun

a prayer.

Origin of orison

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

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Related Words for orison

rogation, pleading, service, application, communion, begging, request, litany, worship, collect, supplication, entreaty, devotion, plea, suit, invocation, benediction, appeal, grace, petition

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Historical Examples of orison

When, if not now, 59shall we set about the orison of the peplus100 and chaplets?
Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes
Aeschylus
Fauchelevent thought that it was an orison which she was finishing.
Les Misrables
Victor Hugo
That mighty pause before the class,—that orison and benediction—how much of my life it has been and made.
Darkwater
W. E. B. Du Bois
It was, however, the best I could hit upon, and I directed my steps towards the Farnham orison.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
Various
It was the orison of Margaret Binkie as she descended to the breakfast-room.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847
Various

British Dictionary definitions for orison

orison

noun

literary another word for prayer 1

Word Origin for orison

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

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Word Origin and History for orison

late 12c., from Anglo-French oreison, Old French oreisun (12c., Modern French oraison) "oration," from Latin orationem (nominative oratio) "speech, oration," in Church Latin "prayer, appeal to God," noun of action from orare (see orator). Etymologically, a doublet of oration.