Both Uses of
congregation
in
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- The congregation struck up a hymn, and sung as though they were as free as the birds that warbled round us,— Ole Satan thought he had a mighty aim; He missed my soul, and caught my sins.†
Chpt 13 *congregation = people who worship together in the same building
- Several years after, he passed through our town and preached to his former congregation.†
Chpt 13
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.