pray'r

English

Noun

pray'r (plural pray'rs)

  1. (poetic) Contraction of prayer.
    • 1675, Tho. Hobbes of Malmsbury, transl., Homer's Odysses, London: W. Crook, Lib. XI, page 128:
      […] Then I
      Bad flay the Victims, and their bodies burn,
      And ſay their Pray'rs to Pluto and his Queen.

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