单词 | prayer-monger |
释义 | > as lemmasprayer-monger prayer-monger n. ΚΠ 1749 P. Annet Social Bliss Considered 100 If importunity be not the availing grace, if the best prayer-monger or speech-maker to God Almighty does not stand the best chance. 1833 J. F. Cooper Headsman (1871) 23 A heretic, hopelessly damned by anticipation, if that of yonder travelling prayer-monger be the true faith. 1934 J. Allan et al. Cambr. Shorter Hist. India ii. xi. 406 The prayer-monger had little difficulty in persuading his other brothers that Dārā was no Muslim. 1987 Post Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 24 Jan. 10/3 Public prayer-mongers have fallen on troubled times, even in the National Football League. < as lemmas |
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