Both Uses of
congregation
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- That congregation of bourgeois habitations, pressed together like the cells in a hive, had a beauty of its own.†
Chpt 1.3.2 *congregation = people who worship together in the same building
- He had taken his place by turns, as the reader has seen, in the conferences of the theologians in Sorbonne,—in the assemblies of the doctors of art, after the manner of Saint-Hilaire,—in the disputes of the decretalists, after the manner of Saint-Martin,—in the congregations of physicians at the holy water font of Notre-Dame, ~ad cupam Nostroe-Dominoe~.†
Chpt 1.4.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(congregation as in: the congregation voted) people who worship together in the same building
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, congregation can reference any group of people, animals, or things collected together.