Prayer

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Prayer

Prayer (pronunciation: /prɛər/) is a spiritual practice that involves an attempt to communicate with a deity or deities, or a higher power, often for the purpose of making requests, expressing gratitude, seeking guidance, or simply expressing one's thoughts and emotions.

Etymology

The term "prayer" comes from the Old French preiere, which is derived from the Latin precarius, meaning "obtained by begging, borrowing, or stealing". It is related to the Latin word prex, which means "request" or "entreaty".

Related Terms

  • Meditation: A practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.
  • Worship: The feeling or expression of reverence and adoration for a deity.
  • Faith: Complete trust or confidence in someone or something, often associated with a particular religious belief.
  • Religion: A social-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements.
  • Spirituality: The quality of being concerned with the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things.

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