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orizon

orizon is the obsolete spelling of orison.

Meaning of orison

Noun

orison (plural orisons)

  1. A prayer.
    • The faire Ophelia! Nymph, in thy Orizons / Be all my ſinnes remembred.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
  2. Mystical contemplation or communion.
    • We shall see later that the absence of definite sensible images is positively insisted on by the mystical authorities in all religions as the sine qua non of a successful orison, or contemplation of the higher divine truths.1902, William James, “Lecture 3”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC

Forms of orizon

pluralorizons

Questions about orizon

What is orizon the obsolete spelling of?
Orizon is the obsolete spelling of orison.

Words near orizon in the dictionary

  1. Oriya
  2. Oriyas
  3. Orizaba
  4. Orizaban
  5. Orizabans
  6. orizon
  7. orizons
  8. Oriège
  9. Orjuela
  10. Orjuelas
  11. ork

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orizon (page history and authors); orison (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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