Lord's Prayer

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌlɔrdz ˈprɛɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌlɔːdz ˈprɛə/

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the Lord's Prayer

1. The prayer which, according to the New Testament of the Bible, Jesus Christ taught his disciples in the Sermon on the Mount.

   Synonyms: Our Father, paternoster

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbj&oslash￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 158:

     He sat down in the middle of the floor, took his chalk out and marked a large ring around him, and round about this he wrote the Lord's Prayer, and then he did not feel afraid even if Old Nick himself should come.

• Appendix:Spoken formulas § The Lord's Prayer

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