prayersome

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From prayer +‎ -some.

Adjective[edit]

prayersome (comparative more prayersome, superlative most prayersome)

  1. Characterised or typified by prayer or praying; prayerful
    • 1974, Russell McKee, The Last West: A History of the Great Plains of North America:
      That proved the mountains couldn't be so terrible— at least to those who'd never seen them— and besides, if a pair of prayersome eastern ladies could make the journey safely, what could stop a hard- knuckled Ohio River farmer?
    • 2007, Marina Lewycka, Strawberry Fields:
      So we went into a small prayersome chapel beauteous in stillness and light and we asked the Lord to deliver our sister Irina who was seized by the Spawn of Satan and nobody knows her wherebeing.