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单词 camp-meeting
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camp-meetingn.

Etymology: < camp n.2 + meeting n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcamp-ˌmeeting.
A religious meeting held in the open air or in a tent (chiefly among Methodists in America), and usually lasting for some days, during which those who attend encamp on the spot.
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society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > meeting for observance > [noun] > in open air
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field conventicle1670
camp-meeting1803
1803 L. Dow Trav. in Wks. (1806) I. 220 A camp meeting, the first I ever attended, was held on Shoulder-bone-creek.
1804 Philadelphia Gaz. 28 Sept. 3/2 38 carts were counted on the camp-meeting ground on Sunday last.
1809 Q. Rev. 2 336 Our fanatics..have not yet ventured to hold camp-meetings.
1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes II. x. 300 Religious scenes..which can hardly be surpassed by an American camp-meeting.
1853 J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama 108 His voice was..modulated according to the camp-meeting standard of elocution.
1872 E. Eggleston End of World xliii. 270 They had passed to an excited shouting of the old camp-meeting ditty.
1878 B. F. Taylor Between Gates 281 In no state in the union is a camp-meeting more exempt from interference than in California.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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