Definition of "orisons" []

• Plural form of orison. (noun)

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• "The good sisters took from their belts the long rosaries, made simultaneously the sign of the cross and suddenly their lips began to move rapidly, becoming more and more accelerated, precipitating their vague murmur as if in a race of "orisons;" and now and then they kissed a medal, crossed themselves again, and resumed their swift and continuous mutterings."
• "His most famous hero whispers, “Nymph, in thy orisons, be all my sins remembered” and converses with a soul from Purgatory."
• "I said my thanks, made my awkward orisons to whatever spirits inhabited the shrine, descended the tricky stairs and crossed the bridge -- appropriately called the Bridge of the Rising Sun -- to the Temple of the Jade Mountain."