Orant

I just learned a cool word: orant

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It means to wor­ship or pray with your hands raised. That’s some­thing I do a lot, but I did­n’t know it had a name beyond “rais­ing your hands”.

I don’t expect that I’ll ever have a chance to use this word in casu­al con­ver­sa­tion (and I real­ly don’t think it would be good while lead­ing wor­ship — “I said assume the orant posi­tion. Do it now!”), but it’s a cool word to have bounc­ing around in my head.