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Praying vs Prying - What's the difference?

praying | prying |

As nouns the difference between praying and prying

is that praying is an act of saying a prayer while prying is the act of one who pries.

As verbs the difference between praying and prying

is that praying is present participle of lang=en while prying is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective praying

is of or pertaining to prayer.

praying

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of or pertaining to prayer.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of saying a prayer.
  • * John Walford
    • However, after breakfast the prayings did not stop for the preachings, — each went on with force; people came flocking in; we had Wesleyans in abundance.

    Verb

    (head)

    • prying

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who pries.
  • * 1992 , Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Realm of Rights (page 280)
    • That it is wrongful to do a thing in that it is grubby in the way in which pryings for the sake of prurient interest are grubby, does not by itself make doing the thing an infringement of a claim.