prayer of supplication

Driving such thoughts from his head, the lad bowed and muttered a short prayer of supplication.

In the midst of the ongoing devastation Father Winter encouraged the people to continue their prayers of supplication.

There are Hebrew prayers of supplication for marriage on the walls of the Sarah cenotaph.

There are different forms of prayer such as petitionary prayer, prayers of supplication, thanksgiving, and worship/praise.

Almost all communities omit Tachanun (additional prayers of supplication) on Isru Chag.

And they have all adopted the custom of rising at night during this ten-day period and praying in the synagogues prayers of supplication and entreaties until daylight."

In Christianity, the prayer of supplication for health by and on behalf of the sick is referenced in early Christian writings in the New Testament, especially James 5:13-16.

Supplication: (also known as petitioning) The most common form of prayer, wherein a person asks a supernatural deity to provide something, either for that person who is praying or for someone else on whose behalf a prayer of supplication is being made.

The learned prelate who administered the last comforts of holy religion to the hero martyr when about to pay the death penalty knelt in a most christian spirit in a pool of rainwater, his cassock above his hoary head, and offered up to the throne of grace fervent prayers of supplication.

Followers of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the 89-year-old head of the Lubavitch Hasidim, sang Hebrew prayers of supplication without pause over the weekend as their leader, known as the Rebbe, stayed in his adjacent private quarters in Brooklyn recuperating from a stroke he suffered one week ago today.