used as a preface to polite requests or instructions:ladies and gentlemen, pray be seated
used as a way of adding ironic or sarcastic emphasis to a question:and what, pray, was the purpose of that?
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address a prayer to God or another deity:the whole family are praying for Michael
wish or hope strongly for a particular outcome or situation:after several days of rain, we were praying for sun [with clause]:I prayed that James wouldn’t notice
