Benediction vs Prayer - What's the difference?
benediction | prayer |
A short invocation for divine help, blessing and guidance, usually after a church worship service.
* Milton
* Longfellow
The form of instituting an abbot, analogous to the consecration of a bishop.
A Roman Catholic rite by which bells, banners, candles, etc., are blessed with holy water and formally dedicated to God.
A practice of communicating with one's God.
The act of praying.
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, title= The specific words or methods used for praying.
A meeting held for the express purpose of praying.
A request; a petition.
As nouns the difference between benediction and prayer
is that benediction is a short invocation for divine help, blessing and guidance, usually after a church worship service while prayer is a practice of communicating with one's God.benediction
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Noun
(wikipedia benediction) (en noun)- So saying, he arose; whom Adam thus / Followed with benediction .
- Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her.
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Antonyms
*maledictionprayer
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(wikipedia prayer)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer .}}