All 3 Uses of
congregation
in
Words by Heart
- But the congregation prayed mightily every Sunday that this blight on the community would be banished, and one afternoon during an electrical storm, it was.†
Chpt 1congregation = people who worship together in the same building
- The whole congregation was there, it seemed like, and new faces that might be relatives or friends of the contestants.†
Chpt 1 *
- After the service had ended and the congregation had left, she took Papa up to the blackboard behind Mr. Doans's desk and showed him the stars she had got for spelling.†
Chpt 10
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.