Definitions for orisons

orisons or·i·son

Spelling: [awr-uh-zuh n, or-]
IPA: /ˈɔr ə zən, ˈɒr-/

Orisons is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in orisons (inoorss).

Definitions for orisons

noun

  1. a prayer.

Origin of orisons

1125-75; Middle English Old French Late Latin ōrātiōn- (stem of ōrātiō) plea, prayer, oration

Examples for orisons

This timing, therefore, of sacrifice and orison to the planetary hours, is pertinently and speakingly feigned by Chaucer.

Maria merely whispered the words of the orison and kept her eyes fastened on the ground.

In her hand she held a book of the time of Solomon and she was saying an orison to God.

Fauchelevent thought that it was an orison which she was finishing.

Half an hour afterwards Dr. orison returned to the guests and reported the woman to be out of danger.

That mighty pause before the class,—that orison and benediction—how much of my life it has been and made.

It was the orison of Margaret Binkie as she descended to the breakfast-room.

When, if not now, 59shall we set about the orison of the peplus100 and chaplets?

It was, however, the best I could hit upon, and I directed my steps towards the Farnham orison.

Word Value for orisons
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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