Precation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A prayer or act of praying; an earnest request. countable, rare, uncountable

    "The Litany […] was ordered to be sung immediately before High Mass, by the priests "with others of the choir" […] and this solemn form of precation, like so many other things, assumed the livery of uniformity."

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prayer

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"The Litany […] was ordered to be sung immediately before High Mass, by the priests "with others of the choir" […] and this solemn form of precation, like so many other things, assumed the livery of uniformity."

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