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English Synonyms and Antonyms

by James Champlin Fernald

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PRAY ( page 281 ).

Questions.

1. What is it to pray in the religious sense? 2. In what lighter and more familiar sense may pray be used? Is this latter use now common?

Examples.

Hesiod exhorted the husbandman to —— for a harvest, but to do so with his hand upon the plow.

I kneel, and then —— her blessing.

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