Definition of "orant" [orant]

• An image of a person with hands up in prayer. (noun)

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• "The four-voice Salve regina, sub-titled ‘Diversi diversa orant’, incorporates seven Marian antiphons, each of the lower voices freely paraphrasing two plainsong antiphons in succession while the superius unfolds the Salve."
• "Vnde Nestorini in partibus illis nullo modo iungunt manus orando: sed orant extensis palmis ante pectus."
• "Habent etiam vitas patrum et eremitas et domes, in quibus orant temporibus suis, ad modum Ecclesiarum facias."