prayerful
given to, characterized by, or expressive of prayer; devout.
Origin of prayerful
1Other words for prayerful
Other words from prayerful
- prayer·ful·ly, adverb
- prayer·ful·ness, noun
- un·prayer·ful, adjective
- un·prayer·ful·ly, adverb
- un·prayer·ful·ness, noun
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How to use prayerful in a sentence
In 1962 only a single flock could be found, which was prayerfully coddled, fed, raised, and reintroduced.
Why Do We Save Some Species and Let Others Get Devastated? | Melissa Holbrook Pierson | May 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTDeep faith may resonate in our position, but it is the ethic of love that forces us to prayerfully reexamine our position.
Moss to African-American Clergy: Don’t Abandon Obama Over Same-Sex Marriage | Otis Moss III | May 15, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST“I hope we can continue prayerfully and that somehow the priests will have true dialogue with us,” she says.
Nuns Gone Wild! Vatican Chastises American Sisters | Barbie Latza Nadeau | April 20, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTSadly and prayerfully while she slept lifted he the retributive mallet and beat in her brittle pate.
The Fiend's Delight | Dod GrileAny mother having prayerfully read this heart message of a true woman will be a better mother.Cumberland Presbyterian.
Laos Folk-Lore of Farther India | Katherine Neville Fleeson
The Government and the two Volksraads have carefully and prayerfully weighed this seven years' franchise measure.
Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) | C. H. ThomasNow, the temptations of Jem Taylor are easily resisted, if you will read your Bible prayerfully.
Watch--Work--Wait | Sarah A. MyersRead the book three times, slowly, thoughtfully, prayerfully.
A Bird's-Eye View of the Bible | Frank Nelson Palmer
British Dictionary definitions for prayerful
/ (ˈprɛəfʊl) /
inclined to or characterized by prayer
Derived forms of prayerful
- prayerfully, adverb
- prayerfulness, noun
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