prayer box

English

Noun

prayer box (plural prayer boxes)

1. (religion) A container used to store written prayers, intentions, or concerns.

   Hyponym: gau

   • 1847, James Cornwell, Ph.D., A School Geography, page 229:

     As illustrative of the superstition of Buddhism, the prayer-boxes may be mentioned.

   • 1929, Philip Barry, John, A Play, page 17:

     He'd got a prayer-box for his birthday. In it was a scroll of the history of Creation to the Flood. He wanted to trade it for one I had, of the first eight chapters of Leviticus, and a slingshot.

   • 1978, Robert Ludlum, The Holcroft Covenant, page 147:

     He inserted a coin in the prayer box, removed a thin tapered candle from its receptacle, and held it to the flame of another nearby.