vigil 的定义
- wakefulness maintained for any reason during the normal hours for sleeping.
- a watch or a period of watchful attention maintained at night or at other times: The nurse kept her vigil at the bedside of the dying man.
- a period of wakefulness from inability to sleep.
- Ecclesiastical. a devotional watching, or keeping awake, during the customary hours of sleep.Sometimes vigils. a nocturnal devotional exercise or service, especially on the eve before a church festival.the eve, or day and night, before a church festival, especially an eve that is a fast.
vigil 近义词
watch
更多vigil例句
- They gather for protests and vigils—not just to honor the dead but to express outrage and foment change.
- Something they can draw warmth fromPeople have been lighting candles during vigils, funerals, and other somber ceremonies since the times of the ancient Egyptians.
- There were never any wanted signs outside the police academy or candlelight vigils in suburbia.
- On Wednesday evening, dozens met up for a vigil and a march starting at Seventh and Kennedy streets NW, where the incident occurred.
- Fansler once worked as a legal advocate for the local domestic violence shelter, Tundra Women’s Coalition, attended candlelight vigils and, as a member of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, managed a “Teens Acting Against Violence” program.
- “If 6,000 people were at the vigil, we hope it will be big,” said university student council President Jalen Ross of the search.
- The conference had already scheduled a candlelight vigil for those who died of AIDS.
- Obama happened to be in town the following Thursday, when there was a candlelight vigil for Rushing.
- Finally, there was a vigil of about ten people standing hand in hand across the street form the clinic praying quietly.
- After standing vigil at the scene of the crime, Adebolajo also approached cameras that began recording the aftermath.
- There was no night to bring his vigil or his meditations to a close, but time wore him out at last.
- Its hiding-place was discovered by angelic music which issued from the mouth of the cave on every vigil of the holy apostle.
- “We will stay,” said my father; and as terrible a vigil as ever poor creatures kept commenced.
- It was not until long after midnight that he relaxed his straining, uneasy vigil, and stretched himself to unvexed sleep.
- This morning I succeeded in eluding my uncle's vigil, and here I am.