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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
orison .
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- noun obsolete See
orison .
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- noun Obsolete form of
orison .
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Examples
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(As, for example, Bossuet in 1669 in his oraison funebre over Henriette Marie, wife of Charles I).
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Well, and thats enough, I think, by way of a decorous oraison funèbre for the most tender wife of a most tender husband.
Chapter IV. Part VI 1917
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In accordance with the decisions taken at Issy, Bossuet now wrote his instruction on the "Etats d 'oraison", as an explanation of the thirty-four articles.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Provence and Italy, she set forth her ideas in two works, "Le moyen court et facile de faire oraison" and "Les torrents spirituels".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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This apostolate she is to exercise not in preaching the Gospel, but in spreading the mystical life, the theory of which she presents in the "Moyen court et facile de faire oraison"
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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I could never hear the Ave-Mary bell without an oraison, or think it a sufficient warrant, because they erred in one circumstance, for me to err in all -- that is, in silence and dumb contempt.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy Various 1909
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Il a rédigé une longue oraison, en français, et il l'a apprise par coeur.
Collections and Recollections George William Erskine Russell 1886
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We take not here the word prayer (oraison) only for the petition (priere) or demand for some good, poured out by the faithful before God, as S. Basil calls it, but as S. Bonaventure does, when he says that prayer, generally speaking; comprehends all the acts of contemplation; or as S. Gregory
Treatise on the Love of God 1567-1622 1884
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For the convenience of devotees, iron rings, at short intervals, were driven into the wall; holding desperately to these, the pious pilgrim, at some peril, might compass the circuit; saying an oraison to Saint Bernard, and some ten
The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson With a memoir by Arthur Symons Ernest Christopher Dowson 1883
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Quand je suis seul, je joue quelquefois comme un petit enfant, meme en faisant oraison.
The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss Prentiss, George L 1882
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