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ˈprayer-ˌmeeting
A meeting for prayer; a religious meeting for devotion, in which several of those present offer prayer.
1780Arminian Mag. III. 155 Some of these coming over to the prayer meetings at Wednesbury..were utterly astonished... Presently a prayer meeting was set up at Darlaston. 1817W. Sewall Diary 11 Jan. (1930) 7/1 Evening attended prayer meeting. 1831A. Bonar in Diary & Lett. (1893) 18 In some sort a prayer-meeting over our Studies in the Bible. 1838McCheyne ibid. 79 This seems a fruit of our prayer-meeting, begun last Wednesday. 1877Spurgeon Serm. XXIII. 446, I invite those who take part in our prayer-meetings to lay this matter to heart. 1928J. Buchan Runagates Club xi. 298 It was the prayer-meeting, remember, which brought America into the War. 1954D. S. Davis in Ellery Queen's Mystery Mag. June 27/1 Sue Thompson had..been..to Sunday prayer meeting. 1972News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) 30 Dec. 4/3 Wednesday night prayer meeting..and the amen corner have gone with stewards who yelled out ‘amen’ during the sermon. |