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meetinghouse
noun as in house of God
Example Sentences
In an 18th-century New England town, who owned the meetinghouse?
Karenstua Café is a meetinghouse in the truest sense of the word.
In the meetinghouse men and women sat apart, listening to the long prayers and sermons, or slowly singing very sober hymns.
I joined them, and thereby was led into the great meetinghouse of the Quakers near the market.
Mr. Baxter was a godly man, but his Deity lived in the meetinghouse and was rarely to be mentioned except within its four walls.
The silent, ghostly figures merged into a compact, motionless mass in front of the meetinghouse.
He posted a number of reliable, cool-headed men around the "meetinghouse," many of them being armed.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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