meaning of vigils

1. Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch.
2.
Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises.
3.
Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast.
4.
Later, the day and the night preceding a feast.
5.
A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast.
6.
a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe


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