vigils in English

noun
1
a period of keeping awake during the time usually spent asleep, especially to keep watch or pray.
my birdwatching vigils lasted for hours
2
(in the Christian Church) the eve of a festival or holy day as an occasion of religious observance.
The Christmas pageant involving the children from Culleens and Kilglass N.S. will take place during the Gospel at the Christmas night vigil Mass in Kilglass Church.
noun

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1. Some families of polio victims mounted twenty-four-hour bedside vigils.

2. Vigils For Atlanta Victims And Anti-Racism Protests Draw Thousands Across U.S

3. Tibetans are forsaking dancing and dinner parties for vigils yak - butter candles and the chanting of prayers.

4. Believing it would keep the lights away, residents of Colares organized night vigils lit fires, and ignited fireworks.

5. Anzacs contribute strongly to the myth of Australian identity formation, with Anzac Day celebrations and dawn vigils, in Australia and abroad, commemorating and perpetuating the Anzac legend (Donoghue and Tranter 2013)

6. One says that you have special almanacks printed where you double the ember days and vigils so that you may profit by the fasts to which you bind all your house.

7. In the night of Holy Saturday, during the solemn Easter Vigil, "mother of all vigils", this silence will be broken by the singing of the Alleluia which announces Christ's Resurrection and proclaims the victory of light over darkness, of life over death.