Both Uses
congregation
in
All the Bright Places, by Niven
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- My arms are outstretched as if I'm conducting a sermon and this entire not-very-big, dull, dull town is my congregation.†
p. 4.8 *congregation = people who worship together in the same building
- Charlie mutters, "What a bunch of phonies," and I'm not sure if he's talking about our classmates or the Finch family or the entire congregation.†
p. 342.3
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) Much more rarely, congregation can reference any group of people, animals, or things collected together.