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Etymology

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prayer +‎ -ish

Adjective

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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?