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Our Father

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Our Father (plural Our Fathers)

  2. (Christianity) God; God the Father.
    Synonyms: Heavenly Father, Man Upstairs; see also Thesaurus:god
    Coordinate terms: Old Man; Holy Mother
  4. (Christianity) The Lord's Prayer, which begins with these words.
    Synonym: paternoster
    Coordinate term: Hail Mary
    • 1872, F. A., chapter V, in Marion Howard; or Trials and Triumphs, Philadelphia: Peter F. Cunningham, […], page 100:
      “What did the priest, and all of you, keep on saying when we first went in?” / “Our Fathers, Hail Maries, and Glorias; couldn’t you hear?” asked Emily, laughing.
    • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
      "You are our Father as well as theirs. Permit us, for a short space, to meet in brotherhood, that we may have an added knowledge of that eternal life which awaits us, and so be helped during our years of waiting in this lower world." He ended with the "Our Father", in which we all joined.
    • 1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 130:
      [T]hen sing three times: Miserere mei deus [Psalm 56] and nine times the Our Father.

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