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单词 prayer-grinding
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prayer-grinding
prayer-grinding n. and adj. Obsolete
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1828 Lion 15 Aug. 208 If all the cannons, guns, bombs, and mortars..were used for that, and no other purpose, than to out-roar the cant and bruit of psalm-smiting and prayer-grinding throughout the kingdom,..I should hail the day, of the proudest triumph that humanity has yet to hope.
1842 Morning Chron. 19 Oct. We object to the prayer-grinding system practised at St. Pancras workhouse.
1910 F. H. Perrycoste Ritual, Faith, & Morals 244 All this mechanical prayer-grinding folly is the proof of his followers' zeal for that teacher who denounced vain repetitions.
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