mattins

Definitions

Examples

• These seven offices were condensed in 1519 into two, our present Mattins and Evensong.

• Miss Deedy ruins her already feeble health with early mattins (she insists on the double t) and frequent fasts.

• We make it known we shall be pleased to see them after Mattins and Evensong.

• We have no right to complain for a moment of what some people call the monotony of Mattins and Evensong for ourselves.

• The days when the thrushes sang mattins were come and all the way she heard freshets of holy song pouring down through the air.