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- We live, he said to the hushed congregation, in a day and age when fathers often do not receive the respect they should from their sons.†
Chpt 7congregation = people who worship together in the same building
- " Although usually there was only silence in the congregation, I heard a few hearty "amens" from the choir box, and then, to my joy, I realized who had influenced at least the second part of this particular sermon.†
Chpt 7
- A moment before, he seemed to be lifted high above the congregation, carried aloft by his own rhetoric.†
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- Reverend Richard and his congregation scraped up enough money to buy his church and save it.†
Chpt 21
Definitions:
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(1)
(congregation as in: the congregation voted) people who worship together in the same building
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, congregation can reference any group of people, animals, or things collected together.