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Meaning of excubation | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A keeping watch; a vigil.

obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“Yseult, who was not in the secret, demanded the reason of this perpetual excubation, and was, for the first time, informed that Tristan had sent for the queen of Cornwall.”
“Infinitely more so than the lucubrations Is the necessity there is for excubations. Hard's the duty in three watches—worse watch and watch— Expos'd to the elements without a thatch […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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