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n. A watch kept during normal sleeping hours.

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

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

n. Ritual devotions observed on the eve of a holy day. Often used in the plural.

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

n. A period of observation or surveillance.

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

n. 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.

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

n.

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

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

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

n. 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.

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

n. 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.

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

n. A wake.

n. a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe

n. a period of sleeplessness

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

"A vigil is planned in his memory for Saturday, she said."

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