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prayer box en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A container used to store written prayers, intentions, or concerns.
   • He'd got a prayer-box for his birthday. In it was a scroll of the history of Creation to the Flood. He wanted to trade it for one I had, of the first eight chapters of Leviticus, and a slingshot. 1929, Philip Barry, John, A Play, page 17:
   • He inserted a coin in the prayer box, removed a thin tapered candle from its receptacle, and held it to the flame of another nearby. 1978, Robert Ludlum, The Holcroft Covenant, page 147:
   • As illustrative of the superstition of Buddhism, the prayer-boxes may be mentioned. 1847, James Cornwell, Ph.D., A School Geography, page 229:

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