Pray vs Victim - What's the difference?
pray | victim |
To petition or solicit help from a supernatural or higher being.
To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.
(religion) to communicate with God for any reason.
(obsolete) To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
* Shakespeare
please; used to make a polite request.
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* Charles Dickens, , 1841:
* Frederick Marryat, , 1845:
* 1892 , (Arthur Conan Doyle),
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(original sense) A living creature which is slain and offered as human or animal sacrifice, usually in a religious rite; by extension, the transfigurated body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist.
Anyone who is harmed by another.
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A person who suffers any other injury, loss, or damage as a result of a voluntary undertaking.
An unfortunate person who suffers from a disaster or other adverse circumstance.
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As a verb pray
is to petition or solicit help from a supernatural or higher being.As an adverb pray
is please; used to make a polite request.As a noun victim is
original sense A living creature which is slain and offered as human or animal sacrifice, usually in a religious rite; by extension, the transfigurated body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist.pray
English
Verb
(en verb)- Muslims pray in the direction of Mecca.
- I know not how to pray your patience.
Derived terms
* prayer * pray in aidAdverb
(-)- pray silence for…
- "Pray , Mr. Knightley," said Emma, who had been smiling to herself through a great part of this speech, "how do you know that Mr. Martin did not speak yesterday?"
- Pray''' don’t ask me why, '''pray''' don’t be sorry, '''pray don’t be vexed with me!
- Well, Major, pray tell us your adventures, for you have frightened us dreadfully.
- Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue your most interesting statement.
- He is a South American, so perhaps revolutionary spirit courses through Francis's veins. But what, pray , does the Catholic church want with doubt?
victim
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“There the cause of death was soon ascertained?; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”}}
Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}
The Younger Set, passage=“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,
High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.