| 单词 | evening prayer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasevening prayer evening prayer n. religious worship taking place in the evening, spec. the Anglican service of evensong; the ritual or words prescribed for this; also in plural in same sense (cf. prayer n.1 4a). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > canonical hours > vespers, evensong > [noun] evensongOE evesonga1250 evening prayer1539 evening song?1548 evening service1561 vesper1611 vespera1640 vespertine1651 vesper service1797 1539 J. Hilsey Man. Prayers sig. EE.iiv As we now call the mornynge prayers Matens, and the euenynge prayers Euensonge. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. ii. 98 A ciuill modest wife..that will not misse you morning nor euening prayer . View more context for this quotation 1653 R. Lovell in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 36 Mr D[ean] Cosens, as hee was readeing evening prayer, fell down in a swoone. 1762 J. Wesley Let. 26 Nov. (1931) IV. 365 As soon as Evening Prayer was over, the tide then serving, I took boat at the Bluff for Carolina. 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xi. 104 The bells of the multitudinous city churches were ringing to evening prayers. 1984 M. Richler in G. Lynch & D. Rampton Canad. Ess. (1991) 254 We were obliged to join my grandfather at sunset in the poky little Gallicianer shul around the corner for the evening prayers. 2010 S. Massotty tr. K. Abdolah House of Mosque 11 Hundreds of worshippers had come to the mosque for the evening prayer. < as lemmas |
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