vespers
IPA: vˈɛspɝz
noun
- (Christianity, plural only) The sixth of the seven canonical hours, an evening prayer service
- (Christianity) A Christian service held in the late afternoon or early evening; evensong
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Examples of "vespers" in Sentences
- Altar set up for a vespers service.
- Vespers was the service in early evening.
- Psalms are not to be curtailed at Vespers.
- It then finished off with a Vespers service.
- All of these will be blessed at the end of Vespers.
- It was the beginning of the eponymous War of the Sicilian Vespers.
- All three agree on the centrality of John of Procida in the Vespers.
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