What is another word for prayer-book?

Pronunciation: [pɹˈe͡əbˈʊk] (IPA)

A prayer-book is a collection of religious texts and prayers used for worship and personal devotion. There are many synonyms for this word, including missal, breviary, hymnal, liturgy, psalter, devotional, and book of hours. A missal is a prayer-book used by Roman Catholics for the Mass, while a breviary contains the daily office of prayers for priests and religious. A hymnal is a prayer-book focused on hymns, while a psalter contains the book of Psalms. A book of hours is a prayer-book for personal devotion, usually containing prayers for different times of the day. Regardless of the terminology used, all these prayer-books serve as a guide for individuals wanting to deepen their spiritual practices.

What are the hypernyms for Prayer-book?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    religious text, sacred text, book of prayers, devotional text, liturgical text, prayer manual, spiritual text.

Famous quotes with Prayer-book

  • Stamping around, waiting, I cursed England aloud, hands dug deep into pockets, dancing to the wind that knocked in vain at the Sunday shops. Cigarette-packets, football fixtures, bus-tickets sailed by in dust-ghosts of Saturday. A woman with a puce face and a blancmange-coloured prayer-book was waiting also for The Priest and Pig, and she looked puce disapproval at me. Twenty minutes late, the bus yawned in from town, near-empty, and it swallowed us in a gape of Sunday ennui. So we sundayed along, rattling and creaking in Sunday hollowness, I upstairs, tearing my elevenpenny ticket while I read the prospectus of Winter Commercial Classes stuck on the window.
    Anthony Burgess

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