单词 | non-churchgoing |
释义 | non-churchgoingn. The action or practice of not attending a church regularly or at all. ΚΠ 1899 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 4 624 Reasons I receive for non-churchgoing. 1916 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 22 188 In relatively few cases..is conscious skepticism the cause of non-church-going. 1992 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 64 323 Widespread non-church-going among the poor generally. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). non-churchgoingadj. Of a person: not in the habit of attending a church. ΚΠ 1857 T. Guthrie City 198 Twelve districts, containing 12,194 habitually non-churchgoing families. 1924 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 29 690 Why should the excitability of one crowd express itself in whipping non-church-going farmers? 1948 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Male xiii. 469 The sexually most active individuals are the non-church-going Catholics. 1993 R. Goldstein Strange Attractors 193 What was so goddamned interesting to Clean Luke of the nonchurchgoing McCleans about my father's being a rabbi? This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1899adj.1857 |
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