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Prayerful vs Prayerless - What's the difference?

prayerful | prayerless |

As adjectives the difference between prayerful and prayerless

is that prayerful is that prays frequently; characterised by prayer, devout, reverent while prayerless is without prayer.

prayerful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That prays frequently; characterised by prayer, devout, reverent.
  • *2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 207:
  • *:His extrovert craziness is an interesting counterpoint or safety valve to the ethos of prayerful silence and traditional solemnity which is so much part of Orthodox identity.

    • prayerless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without prayer.
  • * 2005 , Jonathan Edwards, Randall J. Pederson, Day by Day with Jonathan Edwards
    • But how is a life, in a great measure prayerless , consistent with a holy life? To lead an holy life is to lead a life devoted to God; a life of worshipping...
  • * 2007 , Edward M. Bounds, Power Through Prayer
    • Salvation never finds its way to a prayerless heart.

    Derived terms

    * prayerlessly * prayerlessness