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evening prayer en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:Anglicanism; Methodism; Anglicanism; Methodism) The second of the two services of the Daily Office, combining the canonical hours of vespers and compline.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see evening, prayer.
    • – – has been set at two in the morning prayer, four in the midday prayer, four in the afternoon prayer, three in the sunset prayer, and four in the evening prayer. 2006, Vincent Cornell, Voices of Islam [5 Volumes], page 13:

Forms

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Coordinates

morning prayer

Synonyms

evensong

Translations (6)

cy gwasanaeth hwyrol (second of two services of the Daily Office) · fi iltarukous (prayer recited in the evening) · de Abendgebet (prayer recited in the evening) · cy hwyrol weddi (prayer recited in the evening) · cy hwyrol weddi (second of two services of the Daily Office) · sv aftonbön (prayer recited in the evening)