church-goerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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churchgoer (plural churchgoers)

1. One who regularly goes to church; a practicing Christian.

   Hypernym: person

   Coordinate terms: synagogue-goer, shulgoer, temple-goer, templegoer, mosque-goer, shrinegoer, gurdwara-goer

   Near-synonym: chapelgoer

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 11:

     Well, one Christmas Eve, just like to-night, she thought she would go to the morning service on the Christmas Day, for she was a great church-goer, and so she left out some coffee with the girl before she went to bed, that she might get a cup next morning she was sure a cup of warm coffee would do her a great deal of good at that early hour!

   • 1985, Joy Davidman, Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments, →ISBN, page 58:

     A forced churchgoer has no religion, a terrified churchgoer has no Christianity, a bribed churchgoer has no morals.

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