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Another word for vigil

vigil Synonyms

vigil

n.

watch, wakefulness, sleeplessness, sentry duty, wake; see also watchfulness.

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Another word for vigil

noun

The act of carefully watching:

lookout, surveillance, vigilance, watch. Idiom: watch and ward. See awareness

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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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