Prayer vs Adoration - What's the difference?
prayer | adoration | Synonyms |
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.
(countable) An act of religious worship.
* a. 1779 ,
(uncountable) Admiration or esteem.
* 1890,
(uncountable) The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.
* 1887,
Prayer is a synonym of adoration.
As nouns the difference between prayer and adoration
is that prayer is a practice of communicating with one's god or prayer can be one who prays while adoration is (countable) an act of religious worship.prayer
English
(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 .}}
Synonyms
* orison, precationDerived terms
* not have a prayer * prayer book * prayer meeting * friday prayer * prayer wheelEtymology 2
(pray).adoration
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Noun
(en noun)- We incessantly look forward, and endeavour, by prayers, adoration , and sacrifice, to appease those unknown powers, whom we find, by experience, so able to afflict and oppress us.
- ...if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly...she is worthy of all your adoration', worthy of the ' adoration of the world.
- He adored Sorais quite as earnestly as Sir Henry adored Nyleptha, and his adoration had not altogether prospered.