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pray'r (plural pray'rs)
- (poetic) Contraction of prayer.
1675, Tho. Hobbes of Malmsbury, transl., Homer's Odysses, London: W. Crook, Lib. XI, page 128:[…] Then I
Bad flay the Victims, and their bodies burn,
And ſay their Pray'rs to Pluto and his Queen.