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What (who) is matins - definition
matins
n. pl.
Morning prayers, morning service.
matins
(also mattins)
¦ noun a service of morning prayer, especially in the Anglican Church.
?a service forming part of the traditional Divine Office of the Western Christian Church, originally said (or chanted) at or after midnight.
Origin
ME: from OFr. matines, plural of matin 'morning', from L. matutinum, neut. of matutinus 'early in the morning', from Matuta, the name of the dawn goddess.
Matins
Matins (also Mattins) is a canonical hour in Christian liturgy, originally sung during the darkness of early morning.
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Matins
Matins (also Mattins) is a canonical hour in Christian liturgy, originally sung during the darkness of early morning.
Examples of use of matins
1. Even the low, anticipatory murmur of a pre–Matins Anglican congregation is missing.
2. If the Tories in Bournemouth had been smart, they would have begun their conference by crowding into Sunday matins at Street‘s masterpiece, St Peter‘s Church, with its evocative memories of Keble, Gladstone and Shelley.
3. Following his own entrepreneurial instincts, he had moved away from the beauty business to produce, in partnership with Jean–Louis Livi, several films, including the successful Tous les matins du monde (1''1), starring Grard Depardieu, and Un coeur en hiver (1''3), with Emanuelle Bart.