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A prayer, especially in older or elevated literary language.
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- whispered orison
- evening orison
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A whispered orison followed her into the darkened room.
He repeated the evening orison before touching the sealed letter.
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Primary category: gothic. Forms: Singular orison; plural orisons. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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