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- Both the village of Made and the congregation of Willem's church had declined in recent years.†
p. 56.9congregation = people who worship together in the same building
- I looked around at his congregation of sturdy villagers and farmers and saw that they did not care for such ideas.†
p. 57.6
- The minister he was assisting, he wrote, had turned the parish calling over to him: it was a wealthy congregation and large contributors expected frequent and unhurried visits from the clergy.†
p. 59.4
- Willem had long since left the parish ministry, where his habit of speaking the hard truth had made a succession of congregations unhappy, and had started his nursing home in Hilversum, thirty miles from Haarlem.†
p. 71.7 *
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.