Both Uses of
congregation
in
Babbitt
- He coaxed her with large booming sounds, with affable smiles, like a popular preacher blessing an Easter congregation, like a humorous lecturer completing his stint of eloquence, like all perpetrators of masculine wiles.†
Chpt 9
- It had the intellectual quality which distinguished the Chatham Road congregation from the grubby chapels on Smith Street.†
Chpt 16 *
Definition:
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(congregation as in: the congregation voted) people who worship together in the same building