单词 | vigil |
释义 | vig·il ![]() n. 1. a. A watch kept during normal sleeping hours. b. The act or a period of observing; surveillance. 2. The eve of a religious festival observed by staying awake as a devotional exercise. 3. often vigils Ritual devotions observed on the eve of a holy day. 4. A public assembly convened, often at night, as a political protest or in support of a cause. [Middle English vigile, a devotional watching, from Old French, from Latin vigilia, wakefulness, watch, from vigil, awake; see weg- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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