orison
/ˈɒɹɪsən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.73 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A prayer.
noun
Example Sentences
- "The faire Ophelia! Nymph, in thy Orizons / Be all my ſinnes remembred."
- ""I hope," said a voice by her side, "your absent brother will not engross all your orisons.""
- "1917, Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons."
- "‘Pass on, pass on, don’t interrupt the hermit at his orisons.’"
- "We shall see later that the absence of definite sensible images is positively insisted on by the mystical authorities in all religions as the sine qua non of a successful orison, or contemplation of the higher divine truths."
- "Only in certain occult and mystic states: in orison, contemplation, ecstasy and their allied conditions; does the self contrive to turn out the usual tenants, shut the "gateways of the flesh," and let those submerged powers which are capable of picking up messages from another plane of being have their turn."
Etymology
From Middle English orisoun, from Anglo-Norman oreison, oresoun etc. and Old French oraisun etc., from Latin ōrātiō, ōrātiōnem (“discourse, prayer”) (whence also English oration).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: orisoun, oreison, oraisun, ōrātiō
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈɒɹɪsən/