prayerishとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

prayerish (comparative more prayerish, superlative most prayerish)

1. Characteristic of or inclined toward prayer; prayerlike or prayerful.
   • 1935, The Tanager - Volumes 11-12, page 9:

     She had a prayerish voice.

   • 1941 -, Norman Alley, I Witness, page 175:

     Others, I swear, crossed themselves at least mentally, and whispered a prayerish aside into their seidels.

   • 1960, Drum - Issues 105-117, page 63:

     The only number I liked was that prayerish affair.

   • 2018, Emma Shevah, Dara Palmer's Major Drama:

     Or because the people who went there were in a prayerish mood and were more likely to take care of me?