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He added that he believed the cardinals would their "best work once the doors of the conclave have been shut", as at that point, there would be "a peace and a prayerfulness between us".

From BBC Apr. 24, 2025

It is usually marked by quiet prayerfulness, and on Sunday the pope, along with members of the Roman Curia, will leave Rome to begin a five-day retreat.

From The Guardian Mar. 4, 2017

It is composed of eight sections, of ten lines each, and is full of quaint mediæval tenderness and reverence, and the intense prayerfulness of the old German faith.

From Dürer Artist-Biographies by Sweetser, M. F.

The answer which is popularly given, I suppose, is that all these three injunctions in our text, 'Ask—seek—knock,' are but diverse aspects of the one exhortation to prayerfulness.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Maclaren, Alexander

Masses of rich chestnut hair were gathered back from the face; and over the bosom, struck cold in the bloom of life, two white hands were folded in an attitude of solemn prayerfulness.

From A Noble Woman by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)