Sermon vs Prayer - What's the difference?
sermon | prayer |
Religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter.
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, title= A lengthy speech of reproval.
(poetic, obsolete) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
(poetic, obsolete) To tutor; to lecture.
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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 sermon and prayer
is that sermon is sermon while prayer is a practice of communicating with one's god or prayer can be one who prays.sermon
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Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon , he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
Verb
(en verb)- (Spenser)
- Come, sermon me no further.
Anagrams
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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 .}}