prayerfulness

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Noun
  • The approach holds science and spirituality together, recognising that each addresses a different dimension of human suffering, and that durable healing requires both.
    Kaitlyn Gomez, USA Today, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Rollins is also the founder of the nonprofit Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts (FSA) which fosters connections between contemporary art and spirituality and examines how faith can influence an artist’s process.
    Felicia Feaster, AJC.com, 26 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Even adversaries in the Arab world have never sunk to attacking the holiness of the Western Wall.
    Steven Burg, Sun Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Singh, who would be our local guide, always wore the five traits of a pious Sikh man — uncut hair (symbolizing strength and holiness and topped by the identifying turban), a steel bracelet, wooden comb, sheathed dagger and a baggy undergarment dating back to the Sikhs’ warrior days on horses.
    Norma Meyer, Oc Register, 4 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • There's a sort of a natural world religiousness or spirituality or philosophy that swells around a lot of things and different characters.
    Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Key measures of religiousness have remained remarkably stable since 2020, according to recent Pew Research Center polling.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The intensity of devotion can feel a bit like that.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2026
  • For over a decade, Claire and Jamie Fraser have loved each other across centuries, continents, and wars; their devotion as enduring as the Highland mist that first enveloped their story.
    Carly Witteman, Vogue, 3 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • To ensure the sanctity of the grand jury, its proceedings and the identities of the grand jurors and witnesses are unavailable to the public.
    Barbara Jaffe, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Even then, the sanctity of the home and the right to privacy were seen as core American principles, shared across the political spectrum.
    Amanda Cats-Baril, Twin Cities, 4 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Better Go Mad in the Wild, Sinéad O’Shea’s capitalism and morality doc All About the Money, and Werner Herzog’s nature film Ghost Elephants.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Agents do not seek truth or morality.
    Victoria Bousis, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Beyond their asceticism, the six members of the group - Daniela Avanzini, Lara Raj, Manon Bannerman, Megan Skiendiel, Sophia Laforteza, and Yoonchae Jeung - hail from different countries, including the Philippines, South Korea, Switzerland, and the United States.
    Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Frayne writes that some second- and third-century sects, such as the Encratites, Priscilliantists, and Manicheans, advocated against meat eating, typically as part of a broader asceticism that might also include celibacy.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In the years following Wallace’s death, this aura of saintliness likely derived from the combination of his moral seriousness as a fiction writer—his attunement to the heroism of private suffering and emotional endurance—and the fact of his premature end.
    Hermione Hoby, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
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“Prayerfulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prayerfulness. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.

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