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repray

repray verb: to pray again.

Verb

repray (third-person singular simple present reprays, present participle repraying, simple past and past participle reprayed)

  1. (transitive) To pray again.
    • Thus the best-written prayers are products of an evolution: first, ardent praying, then careful composition, followed by repraying, to issue in a finished form.1939, Brent, Charles Henry, Adventures in prayer, Harper & Brothers, page 99
    • If we mantises took the time to sort them out, we’d never get them all reprayed.1973, Skurzynski, Gloria, The remarkable journey of Gustavus Bell, Abingdon Press, page 37

Forms of repray

third-person singular presentreprays
present participlerepraying
past participlereprayed
pastreprayed

Origin of repray

re- + pray

Questions about repray

What does repray mean?
Repray means to pray again.
What part of speech is repray?
Repray is a verb.
What is the past tense of repray?
The past tense of repray is reprayed.

Words near repray in the dictionary

  1. repraised
  2. repraises
  3. repraising
  4. RepRap
  5. RepRaps
  6. repray
  7. reprayed
  8. repraying
  9. reprays
  10. repreach
  11. repreached

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