different between orison vs thanksgiving

English

Etymology

From Middle English orisoun, from Anglo-Norman oreison, oresoun etc. and Old French oraisun etc., from Latin ?r?ti?, ?r?ti?nem (“discourse, prayer”) (whence also English oration).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????s?n/, /????z?n/

Noun

orison (plural orisons)

1. A prayer.
   • 1917, Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth

       Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle

     Can patter out their hasty orisons.

2. Mystical contemplation or communion.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 3:

     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.

   • 1911, Evelyn Underhill, Mysticism: A Study of the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness, Part I, Chapter 3

     Only in certain occult and mystics states: in orison, contemplation, ecstasy and their allied conditions, does the self contrive to turn out the usual tenants, shut the "gateways of the flash," and let those submerged powers which are capable of picking up messages from another plane of being have their turn.

Related terms

• orate
• oration

Translations

Anagrams

• Nooris

English

Etymology

thanks +? giving

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æ?ks???v.??/, /??æ?ks???v.??/

Noun

thanksgiving (countable and uncountable, plural thanksgivings)

1. An expression of gratitude.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV

     The waters grew suddenly lighter, and my spirits rose accordingly. I shouted down to those below that I saw daylight ahead, and a great shout of thanksgiving reverberated through the ship. A moment later we emerged into sunlit water, and immediately I raised the periscope and looked about me upon the strangest landscape I had ever seen.

2. A short prayer said at meals; grace, a benediction.
3. A public celebration in acknowledgement of divine favour.

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