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Another word for vigil

Noun

  1. The act of carefully watching

    2. Idioms:
    See also:

    awareness

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Another word for vigil

Noun
    2. See also:

    watchfulness

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • She kept her vigil for what must have been several hours.

  • And yet, it had been Josh who had stood vigil beside her sick bed, not Alex.

  • He returned accordingly to his lonely and perilous vigil on the 4th of November.

  • in 124 9 granted the prior and convent of Pontefract a market every Wednesday at Barnsley, and a fair on the vigil and feast of St Michael and two following days, and Henry VIII.

  • In 1331, at the request of John de Warenne, earl of Surrey, the king granted the "good men" of the town pavage there for three years, and in the same year the earl obtained a grant of another fair there on the vigil, day and morrow of St Oswald.

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