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Definition of Evensongs
1. evensong [n] - See also: evensong
Lexicographical Neighbors of Evensongs
Literary usage of Evensongs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1847)
"I omit those French massacres, Sicilian evensongs,9S the Duke of Alva's tyrannies,
our gunpowder machinations, and that fourth fury, ..."
2. Publications by Hampshire Record Society, Winchester, Winchester Hampshire Record Society, American peace society, Algernon Sidney Crapsey, Ernest Howard Crosby, W. Evans Darby, John Hyde De Forest, Charles Edward Jefferson, Augustine Jones, Mrs. L. J. Mead, J. H. Ral (1892)
"Besides this let him take heed to perform xxx masses, and xxx evensongs, and xxx
nocturnes, and in addition LX masses or as many psalters, and set free one ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"An air floats pleasantly down from an old church tower into the pastor's study,
and the pastor writes to the melody the sweetest of all evensongs. ..."
4. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1897)
"And while undoubtedly a useful purpose was sometimes served by these selections,
as when there were two evensongs in a church on the same day, ..."
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