orison

[ awr-uh-zuhn, or- ]

/ ˈɔr ə zən, ˈɒr- /

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noun

a prayer.

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Origin of orison

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

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Orionids, Orion Nebula, orisha, Oriskany, orismology, orison, Orissa, orixa, Oriya, Orizaba, Orjonikidze

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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.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845|Various
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

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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