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  • noun Plural form of groaning.

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Examples

  • This intimates his readiness and willingness to hear prayer; he lays his ear, as it were, to the mouth of prayer, to hear it, though it be but whispered in groanings that cannot be uttered.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

  • Howbeit I will go aloft to my upper chamber, and lay me on my bed, the place of my groanings, that is ever watered by my tears, since the day that Odysseus went to see that evil Ilios, never to be named.

    Book XIX Homer 1909

  • ‘Telemachus, verily I will go up to my upper chamber, and lay me in my bed, the place of my groanings, that is ever watered by my tears since the day that Odysseus departed with the sons of Atreus for Ilios.

    Book XVII Homer 1909

  • 'Telemachus, verily I will go up to my upper chamber, and lay me in my bed, the place of my groanings, that is ever watered by my tears, since the day that Odysseus departed with the sons of Atreus for Ilios.

    The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1878

  • Howbeit I will go aloft to my upper chamber, and lay me on my bed, the place of my groanings, that is ever watered by my tears, since the day that

    The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1878

  • If the Spirit prays in us, shall we not share His "groanings" in prayer?

    The Kneeling Christian Unknown Christian 1971

  • Here is utter transparency, a prayer without limits, in "groanings" too deep for words.

    Latest Articles Southern-fried Catholicism 2010

  • There was poor Mr. Black flapping about helplessly in his chair, emitting the most awful gaspings and groanings, like a man in the last stages of drowning.

    "Reverse Phylogeny" by Amelia Reynolds Long, part 2 Johnny Pez 2010

  • There was poor Mr. Black flapping about helplessly in his chair, emitting the most awful gaspings and groanings, like a man in the last stages of drowning.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Johnny Pez 2010

  • Paul talks about this prayer in Romans 8: 26 “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.”

    Fervency in prayer 2008

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