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noun. A watch kept during normal sleeping hours.

noun. The act or a period of observing; surveillance.

noun. The eve of a religious festival observed by staying awake as a devotional exercise.

noun. Ritual devotions observed on the eve of a holy day.

noun. The act of keeping awake; abstinence or forbearance from sleep at the natural or ordinary hours of rest; the state of being awake during the natural time for sleep; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch: commonly in the plural.

noun. Devotional watching; hence, devotions, services, praise, prayer, or the like performed during the customary hours of sleep; nocturnal devotions: commonly in the plural.

noun. Eccles.: Originally, in the early church, the watch kept in a church or cemetery on the night before a feast, the time being occupied in prayer.

noun. Hence— The day and night preceding a festival; the eve or day before a festival; strictly, an eve which is a fast.

noun. A wake.

noun. Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch.

noun. Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises.

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noun. Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast.

noun. Later, the day and the night preceding a feast.

noun. A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast.

noun. a peculiar faculty belonging to the flowers of certain plants of opening and closing their petals at certain hours of the day.

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noun. A watch kept during normal sleeping hours, especially over the body of a recently deceased or dying person.

noun. A period of observation or surveillance.

noun. The eve of some religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions.

noun. a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe

noun. a period of sleeplessness

noun. the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)

"The reform of Pope Pius XII did not in fact restore the Easter vigil to its proper historical time after None, since it mandated that the vigil is to start at such an hour that the actual Mass will begin around midnight."

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vigilance  vigilant  

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