vigils
Wakeful overnight observances
Vigils are periods of staying awake, usually at night, for a specific purpose such as prayer, watchfulness, or commemoration.
A candlelight vigil brings people together to honor someone who has died or to protest an injustice.
In religious contexts, a vigil is the eve of a holy day, observed with prayer and sometimes fasting.
The word carries connotations of quiet attentiveness and solemn purpose: Supporters held an all-night vigil outside the hospital.
Guard who monitors
- guardWatchful defensive attention
- watchPortable timekeeping device
- lookoutWatcher or vista point
- overnightSpanning evening to morning
alert · surveillance · patrol · sentry · duty · nightwatch · sleepless · wakefulness
Address to deity
- candlelightLuminescence from burning wick
- vespersEvening devotional service
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
chapel · rosary · monks · nuns · sanctuary · altar · meditation · faithful
Path left in water
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
- candlelightLuminescence from burning wick
- tributeOffering of respect
grief · deceased · bereaved · honoring · flowers · mourners · gathering · overnight
sentinel
Guard who monitors
overnight · alert · surveillance · patrol · sentry · duty · nightwatch · sleepless · wakefulness · observation
prayer
Address to deity
- candlelightLuminescence from burning wick
- vespersEvening devotional service
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
worship · chapel · rosary · monks · nuns · sanctuary · altar · meditation · faithful · sacred
wake
Path left in water
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
- candlelightLuminescence from burning wick
tribute · grief · deceased · bereaved · honoring · flowers · mourners · gathering · overnight · loved ones
demonstration
Public display of opinion
- candlelightLuminescence from burning wick
- solidarityUnity among allies
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
gathering · activists · silent · placards · overnight · justice · awareness · cause · marchers · witnesses
- ceremonieswedding ceremony, wedding, weddings, graduation, graduations
- AIDS activismACT UP, red ribbon, AIDS quilt, World AIDS Day, HIV testing
- protest rightspeaceful assembly, right to protest, assembly rights, protest rights, free assembly
- Orthodox Theologydeification, Church Fathers, ecclesiology, sacred tradition, dogmatics
- chivalryknighthood, knights, chivalry, medieval knights, honor
- activismboycotts, activists, activist, advocate, demonstrating
vigilssleep
Recurring unconscious repose
slumber · rest · dormancy · unconsciousness · naps
vigilscelebrations
Organized expressions of joy
festivities · parties · jubilees · galas · carnivals
vigilsactivities
Things one engages in
action · engagement · participation · bustle · commotion
- candlelight vigilsGatherings honoring someone with flames
- vigilante justiceUnauthorized punishment by civilians
- prayer vigilProlonged devotional gathering
- candlelit vigil
- bedside vigilWatchful presence near the ill
- masked vigilanteConcealed identity crime-fighter
vigil, vigilant, vigilance, vigilante, vigilantly, vigilantes