Below you will find example sentences with "prayer book". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Prayer Book in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: prayer
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 10
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 25.8 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 2 start, 16 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "prayer book" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 25.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a scriptural prayer book there are, a small prayer book and a, common, 1928 and used stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with comic book, prayer service, common prayer, prayer service and common prayer, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with prayer book
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
He was posed holding a small prayer book and a red rose. (12 words)
My Quran and my prayer book occupied my time and attention in prison. (13 words)
Beside these documents, authorised liturgical formularies, such as Prayer Book and Ordinal, are normative. (14 words)
Both differ substantially from the Book of Common Prayer, though the latter includes in the Order Two form of the Holy Communion a very slight revision of the prayer book service, largely along the lines proposed for the 1928 Prayer Book. (41 words)
Early in 1928, a second measure, the Prayer Book Measure 1928, was introduced in the Church Assembly proposing to authorise the use of the "Deposited Book" with certain amendments which were set out in a schedule to the Measure. (39 words)
Books like this are allowed in the Episcopal Church because of a rubric in the 1979 Prayer Book which allows for the translation of the contemporary language into the traditional language of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Book of Common Prayer The 1596 Book of Common Prayer The Book of Common Prayer (BCP) is the foundational prayer book of Anglicanism.
Both differ substantially from the Book of Common Prayer, though the latter includes in the Order Two form of the Holy Communion a very slight revision of the prayer book service, largely along the lines proposed for the 1928 Prayer Book.
Books like this are allowed in the Episcopal Church because of a rubric in the 1979 Prayer Book which allows for the translation of the contemporary language into the traditional language of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer.
The Elizabethan Settlement stopped the radical Protestant tendencies under Edward VI by combining the more radical elements of the Second Prayer Book of 1552 with the conservative 'Catholic' First Prayer Book of 1549.
And the prayer itself became instantly different – no longer a series of verses from the prayer book, but a genuine, aching supplication.
Two of the hymns used in the American Prayer Book office of Morning Prayer, the Benedictus es and Benedicite, are taken from the Apocrypha.
Dear Readers, if you are looking for a scriptural prayer book, there are many good ones out there, but for many years now I have used a book called “Praying With Fire” by Barbara Billet.
Early in 1928, a second measure, the Prayer Book Measure 1928, was introduced in the Church Assembly proposing to authorise the use of the "Deposited Book" with certain amendments which were set out in a schedule to the Measure.
Overall, the book was modelled on the English Prayer Book, the Convention having resisted attempts at deletion and revision.
This was rectified in 1949 by the Service Book of the Antiochian Archdiocese, which replaced the Prayer Book psalms with those from the King James Version and made some other corrections.
The various leaves of the missal were once an intact manuscript, part of a prayer book used by priests for a liturgy centuries ago.
My Quran and my prayer book occupied my time and attention in prison.
At the same time, however, Cranmer intended that constituent parts of the rites gathered into the Prayer Book should still, so far as possible, be recognizably derived from traditional forms and elements.
Beside these documents, authorised liturgical formularies, such as Prayer Book and Ordinal, are normative.
Both Bucer and Fagius had noticed that the 1549 Prayer Book was not a remarkable step forward, although Cranmer assured Bucer that it was only a first step and that its initial form was only temporary.
Cranmer promulgated the new doctrines through the Prayer Book, the Homilies and other publications.
For example Coverdale's renderings are used in Handel's Messiah, based on the Prayer Book Psalter rather than the King James Bible version.
He and Mabel occasionally attended Presbyterian services and sometimes Episcopalian, at which Mabel could follow the prayer book.
He redrafted the Union Prayer Book in 1940 to include more old formulae and authored many responsa, though he always stressed compliance was voluntary.
He was posed holding a small prayer book and a red rose.