vigil

Preposition: of

• prayer: All Night Vigils for Peace Jane White has offered to arrange all night vigils of prayer at Sacred Heart during the present crisis.

Converse of object

• hold: Peace campaigners in Swindon held a vigil in the town center to mark the day.
• organize: Iranians organized big candle-light vigils for America after September 11, in sympathy!
• organize: Things you could do: Organize a prayer vigil for the people of the Middle East.
• keep: His brother, who has flown over from Prague to be with him, is keeping a vigil at his bedside.
• mount: At 3.30pm, a few hundred gathered among the Victorian buildings of the city's George Square to mount a vigil.
• attend: Each of the members who attend the vigil will have to stay in the cell for 10 minutes with only a camera for company.

Preposition: for

• peace: She told me of the 24-hour vigils for peace held in her local Church of Ireland.

Adjective modifier

• all-night: St Basil the Great, 4th century The all-night vigil is celebrated on the eve of the main feasts of the Orthodox Church.
• silent: There will follow a silent vigil outside Downing Street, timed to coincide with the Queens speech.
• 24-hour: The duration - for example, by reducing a 24-hour vigil to four hours.
• anti-war: SMALL anti-war vigils are happening around Britain and anti-war leaflets are being offered to mostly uninterested passers-by.
• lonely: One, a lonely vigil in the style of its pioneer; the other, a more sociable affair.

Noun used with modifier

• candlelit: An annual candlelit vigil in Hong Kong's Victoria Park was the only official event on Chinese soil to mark the 1989 massacre.
• candle-lit: In May members staged a candle-lit vigil outside the Kingdom Hall in Benton, Kentucky.
• candlelight: Photo left from candlelight vigil at Swindon last December.
• bedside: Little Mo maintains a bedside vigil at the hospital.
• prayer: Things you could do: Organize a prayer vigil for the people of the Middle East.
• solidarity: Approach them to stage a solidarity vigil on the first day of our trail at an Irish Embassy or Consul.