Meanings
- rare outside AnglicanismSynonym of matins or morning prayer
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 20252 more examples
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 everlasting”.
2013 January 23, “What's wrong with the word servant?”, in Salisbury Journal, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2025Common practice today is to refer to the choral or sung version of the service as Mattins (or Matins) and the spoken version as Morning Prayer.
[2025, Cathedral Music Trust, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2025Synonyms: matins or morning prayer
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of matins or morning prayer
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mattins. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mattins
“mattins.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mattins. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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