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ˈpew-ˌrent
The rent paid for a pew, or for sittings in a church. Hence ˈpew-ˌrental, ˈpew-ˌrenter; ˈpew-ˌrented, ˈpew-ˌrenting adjs.
1840Penny Cycl. XVIII. 52/2 Pew-rents, under the church-building acts, are exceptions to the general law. 1843Ecclesiologist II. 15 A fashionable pue-rented chapel. 1872Talmage Serm. 105 The building is..untrammelled by the pew-rental system. Ibid. 168 Pew-renting churches and free churches. 1885Truth 11 June 929/1 Let the plates go round To take the mites of affluent pew-renters. |