Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray. · A period of observation or surveillance at any hour. · The eve of a religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions. · A quiet demonstration in support of a cause.
To participate in a vigil.
From Middle English vigile (“a devotional watching”), from Old French vigile, from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be strong, lively, awake”). Doublet of Wigilia. See also wake and vigor, from the same root.
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