Underattendance

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Attendance too infrequently, or by too few. uncountable

    "[…] any honest student of conditions in rural churches is confronted by staggering and depressing statistics of overchurching and underattendance in some sections, and of entire lack of attendance due to no churching at all in others."

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"[…] any honest student of conditions in rural churches is confronted by staggering and depressing statistics of overchurching and underattendance in some sections, and of entire lack of attendance due to no churching at all in others."

Etymology

From under- + attendance.

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