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Prayer-leadership preserves the spirituality of the Church, just as prayerless leaders make for unspiritual conditions.
Edward McKendree Bounds

Meaning of "prayerless" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PRAYERLESS

prayerless  [ˈpreəlɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRAYERLESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Prayerless is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PRAYERLESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of prayerless in the English dictionary

The definition of prayerless in the dictionary is not inclined to or habitually neglectful of prayer or personal communication or petition addressed to a deity or other object of worship, esp in the form of supplication, adoration, praise, contrition, or thanksgiving.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PRAYERLESS


acropolis
əˈkrɒpəlɪs
airless
ˈɛəlɪs
Annapolis
əˈnæpəlɪs
careless
ˈkɛəlɪs
chrysalis
ˈkrɪsəlɪs
glareless
ˈɡleəlɪs
hairless
ˈhɛəlɪs
heirless
ˈeəlɪs
Indianapolis
ˌɪndɪəˈnæpəlɪs
metropolis
mɪˈtrɒpəlɪs
Minneapolis
ˌmɪnɪˈæpəlɪs
paperless
ˈpeɪpəlɪs
peerless
ˈpɪəlɪs
Perlis
ˈpɛəlɪs
powerless
ˈpaʊəlɪs
propolis
ˈprɒpəlɪs
spareless
ˈspeəlɪs
tireless
ˈtaɪəlɪs
wareless
ˈweəlɪs
wireless
ˈwaɪəlɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRAYERLESS

praxis
Praxiteles
pray
prayer
prayer beads
prayer book
prayer mat
prayer meeting
prayer rug
prayer shawl
prayer wheel
prayerful
prayerfully
prayerfulness
prayerlessly
prayerlessness
praying
praying mantid
praying mantis
prayingly

WORDS THAT END LIKE PRAYERLESS

borderless
bottomless
carless
cheerless
collarless
colorless
colourless
driverless
fatherless
fearless
flourless
gearless
genderless
humorless
leaderless
motherless
rudderless
starless
sugarless
tearless
waterless

Synonyms and antonyms of prayerless in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «prayerless» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PRAYERLESS

Find out the translation of prayerless to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of prayerless from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «prayerless» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

祷告
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sin oración
570 millions of speakers

English

prayerless
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

prayerless
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

prayerless
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

немолящиеся
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Negligente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আবেদনহীন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sans prière
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tanpa sembahyang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gebets
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

prayerless
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

기도하지
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tanpa iman
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

prayerless
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

prayerless
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रार्थनाहीन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ibadet etmeyen
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

senza preghiera
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

prayerless
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Немоляєв
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rugăciune
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προσευχής,
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

biddelose
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

prayerless
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bønne
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prayerless

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PRAYERLESS»

The term «prayerless» is used very little and occupies the 168.703 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PRAYERLESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about prayerless

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QUOTES WITH «PRAYERLESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word prayerless.
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Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer-leadership preserves the spirituality of the Church, just as prayerless leaders make for unspiritual conditions.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRAYERLESS»

Discover the use of prayerless in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prayerless and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Prayerless Praying: Rebuilding a Life of Prayer
Response. to. Prayerless. Praying. Most Christians have come to see prayer not as a necessity but as an option among many other options. They prefer their own reasoning to the divine revelation acquired through fellowship with God in ...
Emmanuel Muyumba, 2013
2
E M Bounds, the Classic Collection on Prayer
A prayerless ministry is the undertaker for all God's truth and for God's Church. It may have the most costly casket and the most beautiful flowers, but it is a funeral, regardless of the charming decorations. A prayerless Christian will never learn ...
Edward McKendree Bounds, Harold J. Chadwick, 2001
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Mighty Prevailing Prayer
He does not fear prayerless study, prayerless preaching, prayerless work, or prayerless Christianity. He laughs at our prayerless busyness but trembles when we take prayer warfare seriously. Therefore, he tries to frighten us away from this  ...
Wesley L. Duewel, 1990
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E. M. Bounds: Classic Collection on Prayer
Prayerless praying is insincere. It has no honesty at heart. We name in words what we do not want in heart. Our prayers give formal utterance to the things for which our hearts are not only not hungry, but for which they really have no taste.
Em Bounds, 2002
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The South-western Monthly
58 NOT ON A PRAYERLESS BED. Not one prayerless bod, not on a prayerless bed Compose the limbs to rest; For they alone are blest With balmy sleep Whom angels keep. Not though by care opprcst, Or thought of anxious sorrow, ...
‎1852
6
E. M. Bounds on Prayer
Prayerless praying has no heart in its praying. The lack of heart deprives praying of its reality, and makes it an empty and unfit vessel. Heart, soul, life must be in our praying; the heavens must feel the force ofour crying, and must be brought ...
E. M. Bounds, 2006
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The Complete Works of E. M. Bounds on Prayer: Experience the ...
Prayerless praying stakes nothing on the issue, for it has nothing to stake. It comes with empty hands, indeed, but they are listless hands as well as empty. They have never learned the lesson of empty hands clinging to the cross; this lesson to ...
E. M. Bounds, 2004
8
The Ladies' Repository
NOT on a prayerless bed, not on a prayerless bed, Compose thy weary limbs to rest ; For they alone are blessed With balmy sleep Whom angels keep. Nor, though by care oppressed Or anxious sorrow, Or thought, in many a coil perplexed, ...
‎1872
9
The Mother's Magazine
72 THE PRAYERLESS MOTHER. * Original. THE PRAYERLESS MOTHER. Is it then true that thou, the mother of these children, dost not implore for them the grace of God 1 Canst thou reflect on the hours of their birth, on their liability to ...
‎1844
10
The Chautauquan
Without God's blessing, and committed blindly to Satan's E-Aug. guidance,— returning prayerless from a prayerless sanctuary to a prayerless home, and seeking a prayerless couch at night, and beginning on Monday a prayerless week,which ...
‎1890

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRAYERLESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term prayerless is used in the context of the following news items.
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Where is the call for "humiliation, fasting and prayer"?
Most obviously of all, this call cannot come from a fat, proud, prayerless nobody like me. The call to national repentance is going to have to ... «RenewAmerica, Jul 15»
2
An Open Letter to Pastors - Stand or Fall
The preacher and the preaching encourage sin, not holiness…preaching which kills is prayerless preaching. Without prayer, the preacher ... «Christian Post, Jul 15»
3
Pastor makes public cry to fellow clergy
The preacher and the preaching encourage sin, not holiness…preaching which kills is prayerless preaching. Without prayer, the preacher ... «Rockford Advocate, Jul 15»
4
Gospel singer to organise programme for flood victims
“A prayerless nation is a powerless nation and powerless nation is a prayers nation. “As a country we should not play the blame game about ... «GhanaWeb, Jun 15»
5
A revival in Coweta County?
Prayerless believers. 2). We need to focus on knowing God personally compared to knowing God academically. There's a difference between ... «Newnan Times-Herald, Jun 15»
6
Is There a Spirit of Abortion in the Church?
The refusal to sacrifice time, money, energy and our very lives on a daily basis results in a prayerless, self-centered, quasi-Christian that's ... «Charisma News, May 15»
7
Daily Devotional - March 7: The essence of prayers (Part 2)
A prayerless Christian is a recipe for disaster. The bible encourages us to pray at all times, in everything we do. Apart from asking for our daily ... «Pulse Nigeria, Mar 15»
8
The Strength to Stand
If we are prayerless—that is, if we fail to seek God's guidance and neglect to put on His armor by faith every day—then we will be defeated. «Christian Post, Sep 14»
9
Iraqi Christians fleeing persecution by ISIS need more support from …
More than two dozen prayerless churches now lie abandoned as worshippers run for their lives. Those that flee have been afforded protection ... «Mirror.co.uk, Aug 14»
10
Daily Meditation: Worshipping In Nature
So Nature keeps the reverent frame. With which her years began, And all her signs and voices shame. The prayerless heart of man. «Huffington Post, Mar 14»

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