Crossword-Solution: VIGIL 5 letters, 52 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Vigil v. i. Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is
customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being
awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch.
Vigil v. i. Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other
religious exercises.
Vigil v. i. Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast.
Vigil v. i. Later, the day and the night preceding a feast.
Vigil v. i. A religious service performed in the evening preceding a
feast.

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VIGIL anagram LIVIG

We have 52 clues for the answer “VIGIL”

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Somber event in candlelight 1 answer
It might be done by candlelight 1 answer
Long watch 1 answer
Night watch 1 answer
Night watchman's duty 1 answer
One may be held by candlelight 1 answer
Period of wakefulness 1 answer
Period of watchful attention 1 answer
Period of watchfulness 1 answer
Period of watching 1 answer
Rite of staying awake for prayer on the eve of a religious festival 1 answer
Sentry's watch 1 answer
Solemn watch 1 answer
Event with prayer and candlelight 1 answer
Surveillance period 1 answer
Wakeful attention. 1 answer
Watch by night. 1 answer
Watch kept. 1 answer
Watch maintained at night 1 answer
Watchful period 1 answer
What a sentry keeps 1 answer
night-time period of staying awake to look after a sick person, pray, etc 1 answer
the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes 1 answer
watch Night before 1 answer
Prayer period to keep? 1 answer
Time to watch and wait 1 answer
Continuous watch 1 answer
Candlelit ceremony 1 answer
Bedside watch 1 answer
Candlelight event, perhaps 1 answer
Candlelight event 1 answer
Candlelight ceremony of a sort 1 answer
Candlelight ceremony 1 answer
CANDLELIT service 1 answer
Watchful attention 2 answers
Candlelight ritual 2 answers
Sentry's duty 3 answers
Close watch 5 answers
BEDSIDE ___ 8 answers
BEDSIDE BOOK 10 answers
BEDSIDE FURNISHING 10 answers
BIT OF SURVEILLANCE EVIDE 10 answers
A WATCHFUL PERSON 10 answers
surveillance 11 answers
Watch word 13 answers
Watchfulness 19 answers
wake 32 answers
Lookout 40 answers
Heed 51 answers
Watch 56 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with VIGIL (5)

Dimmesdale, on the night of his vigil, had given her a new theme of reflection, and held up to her an object that appeared worthy of any exertion and sacrifice for its attainment.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Then, as my vigil wore on, came a faintness in the eastward sky, like the reflection of some colourless fire, and the old moon rose, thin and peaked and white.
The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992
Army on Virus Vigil! by Scott Mason In July of 1990, the United States Army joined the inner sanctum of the Computer Hacker.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
But never a speck upon the horizon that might be sail or smoke rewarded the tired eyes that in their endless, hopeless vigil strained daily out across the vast expanse of ocean.
The Beasts of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
The lioness fretted about the bole of the tree for a short time; but finally, either realizing the uselessness of her vigil, or prompted by the pangs of hunger, she stalked majestically away and disappeared in the brush that hid her lord, who had not once shown himself during the altercation.
The Son of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with VIGIL (3)

I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught…
Thomas Aquinas
Four times during the first six days they were assembled and briefed and then sent back. Once, they took off and were flying in formation when the control tower summoned them down. The more it rained, the worse they suffered. The worse they suffered, the more they prayed that it would continue raining. All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars. All through the day, they looked at the bomb line on the big, wobbling easel map of Italy that blew…
Joseph Heller Catch-22
The process of dying is a difficult one, with many fears and anxieties, but it is also a very mysterious and wondrous process. It involves both the body and the soul in the greatest transition we are ever called to make. When I sit vigil with those who are at the edge of death, moments away from crossing over, I am constantly in awe of the process happening in front of me, one that each one of us must eventually go through.
Megory Anderson Sacred Dying: Creating Rituals for Embracing the End of Life
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 58 times in crossword archives (1942–2024).