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mattins

mattins noun: synonym of matins or morning prayer.

Noun

mattins

  1. (rare outside Anglicanism) Synonym of matins or morning prayer
    • Every Sunday those of us who still go to Mattins will say the prayer of Saint Chrysostom containing the request “Fulfil now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for them; granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life...2013 January 23, “What's wrong with the word servant?”, in Salisbury Journal, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2025
    • Mattins is the first of the large Sunday services, in which the Morning Prayer from the Book of Common Prayer of 1662 is sung[2025, St Paul's Cathedral, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2025
    Synonyms:
    matins or morning prayer

Synonyms of mattins

  • matins or morning prayer

Questions about mattins

What does mattins mean?
Mattins means synonym of matins or morning prayer.
What part of speech is mattins?
Mattins is a noun.

Words near mattins in the dictionary

  1. Mattinas
  2. matting
  3. Mattingly
  4. Mattinglys
  5. mattings
  6. mattins
  7. Mattinson
  8. Mattioli
  9. Mattiolis
  10. Mattis
  11. Mattises

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