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Evensong

noun
1.
The sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office; early evening; now often made a public service on Sundays.  Synonym: vespers.
2.
(Anglican Church) a daily evening service with prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer.  Synonym: Evening Prayer.






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"Evensong" Quotes from Famous Books



... Morning Prayer, as we name it, is called in Edward's First Book "An Order for Matins daily through the year." Similarly, what we call the Order for Daily Evening Prayer was styled "An Order for Evensong." These beautiful names, "Matins" and "Evensong," which it is a great pity to have lost, for surely there is nothing superstitious about them, disappeared from the book as subsequently revised, and save in the Lectionary of the Church of England ...
— A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer • William Reed Huntington

... long night marches can never forget it. The departure from barn billets when the blue evening sky fades into palest saffron, and the drowsy ringing of church (p. 303) bells in the neighbouring village calling the worshippers to evensong; the singing of the men who swing away, accoutred in the harness of war; the lights of little white houses beaming into the darkness; the stars stealing silently out in the hazy bowl of the sky; the trees by the roadside standing stiff and stark in the twilight ...
— The Red Horizon • Patrick MacGill

... you thought I spent too much of my time in going to Church, and in Church duties. But where else could I turn? God's house is the only house where sinners are made welcome, and you were always in my heart, Gerald, too much in my heart. For, though day after day, at morn or evensong, I have knelt in God's house, I have never repented of my sin. How could I repent of my sin when you, my love, were its fruit! Even now that you are bitter to me I cannot repent. I do not. You are more to me ...
— A Woman of No Importance • Oscar Wilde

... ringing for evensong as she was climbing the hill, and she had quickened her step fearing she ...
— Bristol Bells - A Story of the Eighteenth Century • Emma Marshall

... the day long! That the husbandman across his shoulder hangs, And, going homeward about evensong, Dies the next morning, ...
— The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems • William Morris


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