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congregation
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The Minister's Black Veil
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A rumor of some unaccountable phenomenon had preceded Mr. Hooper into the meeting-house, and set all the congregation astir.†

congregation = people who worship together in the same building
He seemed not fully to partake of the prevailing wonder, till Mr. Hooper had ascended the stairs, and showed himself in the pulpit, face to face with his congregation, except for the black veil.†
Yet perhaps the pale-faced congregation was almost as fearful a sight to the minister, as his black veil to them.†
Each member of the congregation...
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Nearly all his parishioners, who were of mature age when he was settled, had been borne away by many a funeral: he had one congregation in the church, and a more crowded one in the churchyard; and having wrought so late into the evening, and done his work so well, it was now good Father Hooper's turn to rest.†

Definitions:

(1) (congregation as in: the congregation voted)
people who worship together in the same building
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much more rarely, congregation can reference any group of people, animals, or things collected together.