Pewdom
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The system according to which certain people or certain social classes were allocated particular pews in the local church. historical, uncountable
"[…] that the people who we say have been driven away, and kept away, from the church by pewdom, do go and build Dissenting meeting-houses. The supporters of these are not the very poor, nor the working classes, […]"
Example
More examples"[…] that the people who we say have been driven away, and kept away, from the church by pewdom, do go and build Dissenting meeting-houses. The supporters of these are not the very poor, nor the working classes, […]"
Etymology
From pew + -dom.
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