mattins
Americannoun
noun
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The Queen has often spoken of the importance of her Christian faith, but this year she is not expected to be able to attend the "mattins service", celebrating Easter Sunday.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2022
Whenever the chapel bell rung for mattins, the commandant, with all the inmates of the castle and its precincts, proceeded to the chapel across the spacious square of the castle.
From King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. by Bernhard Severin Ingemann
The merry Larke hir mattins sings aloft; The Thrush replyes; the Mavis descant playes; The Ouzell shrills; the Ruddock warbles soft; So goodly all agree, with sweet consent, To this dayes merriment.
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Lauds, a service at daybreak following closely on and sometimes joined to mattins.
From The Leper in England: with some account of English lazar-houses by Robert Charles Hope
At mattins bound, at prime reviled, Condemned to death at tierce, Nailed to the Cross at sexts, at nones His blessed side they pierced.
From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by William James Miller
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