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Vespers

noun
1.
The sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office; early evening; now often made a public service on Sundays.  Synonym: evensong.


Vesper

noun
1.
A planet (usually Venus) seen at sunset in the western sky.  Synonyms: evening star, Hesperus.
2.
A late afternoon or evening worship service.



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"Vespers" Quotes from Famous Books



... cheerful indolence, devoted to attending the services in the Chapel, which was filled with the scent of incense all day long. At Vespers, while the clear, boyish voices intoned the long-drawn canticles, Jean would be gazing at some woman's face half seen in the dusk of the galleries where the pupils' mothers and sisters knelt during ...
— The Aspirations of Jean Servien • Anatole France
... Leviathan, and therefore I do not propose to narrate the development of the rivalry between these two excellent men. How Mr. Jones introduced an early morning service, and Mr. Hopkins replied with an afternoon musical vespers: how a vested choir of boys was installed in the brown church, and a cornet and a harp appeared in the gallery of the white church: how candles were lighted in the Episcopalian apse, (whereupon Erastus Whipple resigned from ...
— Days Off - And Other Digressions • Henry Van Dyke
... in the meantime has come forward, seizes a rope hanging from the bell tower, and begins to ring vespers). If your worship be seriously meant, ...
— Master Olof - A Drama in Five Acts • August Strindberg
... must be happily situated. Small though it be, it will make many mistakes, because it will be composed of men. Discord will reign there as in a monastery; but there will be no St. Bartholomew, no Irish massacres, no Sicilian vespers, no inquisition, no condemnation to the galleys for having taken some water from the sea without paying for it, unless one supposes this republic composed of devils ...
— Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary • Voltaire
... "Christmas Eve Vespers" was suggested by the schoolmaster's little daughter going into church before the decoration had been put up, and exclaiming, disappointed, "No Christmas!" "The Second Sunday in Lent" recalls, in the line on "the mimic rain on poplar leaves," ...
— John Keble's Parishes • Charlotte M Yonge


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