Definition of Complines

1. Noun. (plural of compline) ¹

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Definition of Complines

1. compline [n] - See also: compline

Lexicographical Neighbors of Complines

complies
compliment
complimental
complimentally
complimentarily
complimentariness
complimentary
complimentative
complimented
complimenter
complimenters
complimenting
compliments
complin
compline
complines
complins
complish
complot
complotment
complotments
complots
complotted
complotter
complotting
comply
complying
compo
compo rations
compone

Literary usage of Complines

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Yellow Book (1895)
"Earth's Complines By Charles GD Roberts BEFORE the feet of the dew There came a call I knew, ... Complines ..."

2. London by Walter Besant (1892)
"No one is ever absent from the daily services, or from complines, except the sick. The cellarer and hospitaller, after complines, wait upon the guests, ..."

3. The Church Historians of England by Joseph Stevenson (1854)
"No one is ever absent from the daily services, or from Complines, except the sick. The cellarer and hospitaller, after Complines, wait upon the guests, ..."

4. Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies by Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme (1922)
"meaning to signify by complines her age and the decline of her best days, and the approach of night. The knight did reply: Sus completas valen mas, ..."

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