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prayer meeting
[ prair ]
noun
- a meeting chiefly for prayer.
- (in certain Protestant churches) a meeting in midweek, chiefly for individual prayer and the offering of testimonies of faith.
prayer meeting
/ prɛə /
noun
- Protestantism a religious meeting at which the participants offer up prayers to God
Word History and Origins
Origin of prayer meeting1
Example Sentences
Three years ago I met Svetlana Gorohovik, a young activist, at the prayer meeting outside the Red Church.
Jim Bob, who served two terms in the Arkansas state legislature, attended a weekly prayer meeting with Huckabee.
Raymond promptly stole it from a church parking lot during Wednesday night prayer meeting and sold it to a chop shop near Tupelo.
In the middle of a prayer meeting, Jindal claimed that Susan collapsed and began convulsing on the floor.
One of my expense items, I remember, was ‘After-prayer-meeting snack, Tuskegee, $3.75.’
Only about twenty-five, who assembled on the southern side of the chapel, joined the prayer meeting.
Two services are held in the chapel on Sundays, and on a Wednesday evening there is a prayer meeting.
They had no chaplain; but they established a prayer-meeting, holding it beside a stump, in a retired place.
And a weekly prayer-meeting was held at his house on Monday evenings, as it had formerly been held in old Max's back parlour.
Suddenly a hymn was started by a voice which every one knew, though they seldom heard it in prayer-meeting.
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