Both Uses of
congregation
in
Of Human Bondage
- He noticed that, whereas the Protestant church was nearly empty and the congregation had a listless air, the Jesuit on the other hand was crowded and the worshippers seemed to pray with all their hearts.†
Chpt 27-28 *congregation = people who worship together in the same building
- Most of the men, it was largely a masculine congregation, were South Germans; and he could not help saying to himself that if he had been born in South Germany he would certainly have been a Roman Catholic.†
Chpt 27-28
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.