watch meeting

noun

1. a religious meeting or service on watch night, terminating on the arrival of the new year.

Word History and Origins

Origin of watch meeting¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

Last night after a very successful and powerful meeting at Chambers' Schoolhouse we came to the watch-meeting at Albion.

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One of the Wesleyan missionaries gave us an account of the watch meeting at the chapel in St. John's.

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"I wish you would come to the watch-meeting to-night," she said, wistfully.

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