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noun, feminine

oraison

/ɔ.ʁɛ.zɔ̃/

noun, feminine/ɔ.ʁɛ.zɔ̃/plural: oraisons

oraison is feminine in French.

oration; orison, meditative prayer

Inherited from Middle French oraison, from Old French oroison et al., from Latin orātiōnem, whence also English oration. The word, especially in the sense of "oration", may have been a very early borrowing into French in the Middle Ages as the other Romance cognates are borrowed learned terms as well.