Definition of "evensong" [e•ven•song]

• A daily evening service in the Anglican Church. Also called Evening Prayer. (noun)
• Roman Catholic Church A service that includes the office of Vespers. No longer in ecclesiastical use. (noun)
• A song sung in the evening. (noun)
• Archaic Evening. (noun)

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• ""At 7 p.m. we'll have a choral evensong, which is designed for congregation participation," Chapman said."
• "There is a melancholy in the modern world which looks with nostalgia to the days when magic ruled the world, and sunrise was a time of aubade, dusk a time for the canticles of evensong, when the elfin ships can be glimpsed by those with second sight against the fiery clouds, setting sail away from the mortal shores for worlds beyond the sunset, beyond the seas we know."
• "I hadn't realised that Tony, who was born into a church family, always attended evensong at St Mary Abbots in Kensington, London, where his father had worked."