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prayer box

noun

Definitions

  1. A container used to store written prayers, intentions, or concerns.

    • As illustrative of the superstition of Buddhism, the prayer-boxes may be mentioned.
    • He'd got a prayer-box for his birthday. In it was a scroll of the history of Creation to the Flood. He wanted to trade it for one I had, of the first eight chapters of Leviticus, and a slingshot.
    • He inserted a coin in the prayer box, removed a thin tapered candle from its receptacle, and held it to the flame of another nearby.

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