"precation" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /prɪˈkeɪ̯ʃən/ [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: precations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin precātiō, from precāre, whence also pray. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*preḱ-}}, {{lbor|en|la|precātiō}} Learned borrowing from Latin precātiō Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} precation (countable and uncountable, plural precations), {{tlb|en|rare}} (rare)
  1. A prayer or act of praying; an earnest request. Tags: countable, rare, uncountable Related terms: precative, precatory
    Sense id: en-precation-en-noun-64x1GOr1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Prayer

Inflected forms

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      "precatio#Latin"
    ],
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      "precāre",
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    ],
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      "pray",
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    ]
  ],
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      "name": "lbor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Latin precātiō, from precāre, whence also pray.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "precations",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "rare"
      },
      "expansion": "(rare)",
      "name": "tlb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
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        "pre",
        "ca",
        "tion"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
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        },
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        }
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          ],
          "ref": "1881, Richard Watson Dixon, History of the Church of England, volume 2, Routledge, page 431:",
          "text": "The Litany […] was ordered to be sung immediately before High Mass, by the priests \"with others of the choir\" […] and this solemn form of precation, like so many other things, assumed the livery of uniformity.",
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          "ref": "1893, Charles P. G. Scott, “English Words Which Hav Gaind or Lost an Initial Consonant by Attraction,”, in Transactions of the American Philological Association, volume 24, page 123:",
          "text": "The full form of the precation was God give you a good even.",
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          "ref": "1996, J. L. Styan, The English Stage, →ISBN, pages xiii–xiv:",
          "text": "The present inquiry therefore aims to pay more than lipservice to the notion of drama as performance, and to make more than a gesture towards the idea of theatre as a composite art, one that mixes music and mime, dance and song, painting and design, poetry and narrative, and much else. It is precation and response, and seeks out evidence of the manipulation of the audience and its powers of perception.",
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      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
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    }
  ],
  "word": "precation"
}
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    ],
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        "English terms borrowed from Latin",
        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
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        },
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            [
              293,
              302
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          "pray",
          "pray"
        ],
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        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
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        "rare",
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/prɪˈkeɪ̯ʃən/",
      "tags": [
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      "rhymes": "-eɪʃən"
    }
  ],
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}

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