precant

Updated: May 12, 2025

If A prayer = B., and A + prayer = B, prayer = O. The attempt to answer this argument by admitting its invalidity relatively to God, but asserting the efficacy of prayer relatively to the pray-er or precant himself, is merely staving off the objection a single step. For this effect on the devout soul is produced by an act of God.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4.