prayerfulness

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Noun
  • The list will be comprised of directors, writers, creators, studio executives and more working in film and television who have made an impact in authentic coverage and storytelling across major world faiths and spirituality over the past year.
    Variety Staff, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Someone like Marvin Gaye saw spirituality and sexuality in conflict, but Prince seems to see them as one thing.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This was the difference between chasing holiness and choosing wholeness.
    Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez, Time, 8 Oct. 2025
  • True holiness can come from deep friendship.
    Jason DeRose, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • If possession football is boring, then how did City score a record-breaking 106 Premier League goals (85 from open play) when, looking at the data, their devotion to keeping possession was at its peak?
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Humans aren’t very good at estimating meal components down to the gram, and measuring every mouthful of food requires intense devotion.
    Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • When this occurs, public worship is suspended until a penitential rite is performed to restore the sanctity of the church.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2025
  • When jurors came forward with concerns, Farber was strict about respecting the sanctity of deliberations and cautioned them not to discuss the content or tenor of jury room discussions, transcripts show.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • It was considered immoral to lie and the whole point of writing things down back then was to increase morality and improve society, so there really is no didactic history of forgery.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Still, the Catholic Legion of Decency and other morality groups would criticize the scene as indecent.
    Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Beyond their asceticism, the six members of the group - Daniela Avanzini, Lara Raj, Manon Bannerman, Megan Skiendiel, Sophia Laforteza, and Yoonchae Jeung - hail from different countries, including the Philippines, South Korea, Switzerland, and the United States.
    Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Frayne writes that some second- and third-century sects, such as the Encratites, Priscilliantists, and Manicheans, advocated against meat eating, typically as part of a broader asceticism that might also include celibacy.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 4 Aug. 2025
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“Prayerfulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prayerfulness. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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