Meaning of keep vigil | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To wait and watch, especially overnight.
2. To observe the deceased overnight.

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Examples

“Sven, for the most part, stayed in the backdrop hovering nervously near the parlor window, where he now kept vigil for newly arriving guests .”

“We started outside with the fire, then processed into the chapel of the retreat center where we kept vigil for the rest of the night by proclaiming the readings, chanting the psalms, and sitting in prolonged periods of reflective silence.”

“a ruelle is a small lane , but in the bedrooms of the French monarchs of the Golden Age it denoted a narrow area beside the royal bed, where attendants kept vigil over their sleeping monarchs and into which the king's mistresses might.be introduced.”

“Rafael died this morning, and this afternoon we are going to keep vigil over him.”

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