Both Uses of
denomination
in
Hard Times
- First, the perplexing mystery of the place was, Who belonged to the eighteen denominations?†
Chpt 1.5 *
- These portentous infants being alarming creatures to stalk about in any human society, the eighteen denominations incessantly scratched one another's faces and pulled one another's hair by way of agreeing on the steps to be taken for their improvement — which they never did; a surprising circumstance, when the happy adaptation of the means to the end is considered.†
Chpt 1.8
Definition:
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(denomination as in: the Baptist denomination) a group of religious congregations (such as churches, temples, masques...) sharing distinctive beliefs and belonging to the same organization
or more rarely (and less formally): any categorization of people