prayerfulness

Recent Examples of Synonyms for prayerfulness
Noun
  • The positively and belief in God's goodness and accessibility preached by 19th-century Spiritualists is at the core of the teachings of much New Age spirituality today — and helps explain its enduring popularity.
    Elizabeth Garner Masarik / Made by History, TIME, 16 Oct. 2024
  • People are getting robbed of not only their money and their spirituality, they’re getting robbed of their womanhood and manhood.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 9 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The priests focused mostly on holiness, the prophets on justice and compassion, and the royal courtiers on practical wisdom.
    Jonathan Sacks, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2012
  • The Ally has chosen sink themselves with pomposity, a humorless sense of holiness, or, worse still, plain canniness — a cynical nod to the selling power of relevance lurking inside a righteous agenda.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • Lawmakers from high-tax states — including Republicans — have made clear their ardent devotion to the cause of restoring the deduction.
    Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • But what may not be as widely known is his devotion as a father to his three daughters.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Even though the theatricality of Bakker’s sermons evokes a cheery, prosperous togetherness, the fact that God’s teachings can be channeled and compressed into such a camera-friendly, direct-to-consumer form raises immediate eyebrows about the sanctity of his message.
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
  • As the high-profile 2024 campaign cycle approaches its end, voters may have concerns about the sanctity and fairness of our elections.
    Deidre Henderson, National Review, 3 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The security agents who enforce hijab laws, informally called morality police, have recently started easing public confrontations with women over the headscarves, following the election of reformist president Masoud Pezeshkian who campaigned on opposing these police patrols.
    Hannah Peart, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Incorporating a mixture of bodycam, dash-camera, and cellphone footage to create a cinema verité effect, the innovative series explores the morality of protecting and serving a community.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Louise tells tales of drunkenness, asceticism, death.
    Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The Buddha’s first sermon also described the Middle Way: a balance between the extremes of asceticism and indulgence.
    Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024

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“Prayerfulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prayerfulness. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.

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