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# petitionary

«petitionary» in Mova's school dictionary: **asking for something; petitionary prayer is prayer that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (petitionary)

### meaning for a pupil

(church, formal) Petitionary means asking for something; petitionary prayer is prayer that asks God for help or for something needed, for yourself or for others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petitionary/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In religion lessons: types of prayer — praise (adoration), thanks (thanksgiving), saying sorry (confession) and asking (petitionary or intercessory prayer). It tells the reader that the prayer or letter is a request.

### examples

- Petitionary prayer asks God for help. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petitionary/#x1)
- «Please make Grandma better» is a petitionary prayer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petitionary/#x2)
- We learnt about thanksgiving and petitionary prayers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petitionary/#x3)
- The Lord's Prayer includes petitionary lines like «Give us this day our daily bread». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petitionary/#x4)
- The king received a petitionary letter from the villagers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petitionary/#x5)
- Some petitionary prayers are for other people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petitionary/#x6)

### note

Formal. From «petition» (a request). Prayer for others is often called intercession or intercessory prayer.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «petitionary» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petitionary/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.