Meaning & use
orison
A prayer, especially one spoken formally or with solemnity.
See it in a sentence
The monk knelt each evening to recite his orisons before the small stone altar.
In the play, the character's dying orison is remembered as one of its most poetic lines.
A note on using this word
An archaic, literary word rarely used in modern speech; "prayer" is the everyday equivalent.
Words with a similar meaning
prayersupplication
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