Antonym: segregation. Similar words: congregate, segregation, aggregation, congratulation, congratulations, congressional, negation, allegation. Meaning: [‚kɒŋgrɪ'geɪʃn] 
n. 1. a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church 2. an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together 3. the act of congregating.
n. 1. a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church 2. an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together 3. the act of congregating. 
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61 There was moreover, a young man in the congregation who lapsed into this sin.
62 As a consequence of this fact it is possible to delineate the proper role of the congregation in the eucharistic prayer.
63 For a dwindling congregation to be glad to become part of an implanted group in their own building is even rarer.
64 It seemed only appropriate to exchange their vows before the entire congregation.
65 It is surely fitting that this should happen since nearly every member of the congregation contributed in some way to the result.
66 A blessing takes place,(http://sentencedict.com/congregation.html) following a procession from the church by the clergy and congregation.
67 It had not come from the heart of the congregation, but from behind the footlights.
68 They are agreed, or vetoed, by the massed staff of the university known as Congregation.
69 While the congregation sat waiting, Brian rummaged through the sacristy until he found some stale hosts.
70 The minister gets waylaid by members of the congregation who want to discuss urgent matters or exchange pleasantries.
71 In the early 1930s the average morning congregation ranged from 72 to 113 and the evening congregations were between 120 and 140.
72 And Christians can be involved in the local congregation for mutual ministry and encouragement and evangelism on a slightly larger scale.
73 The congregation was meeting in a former synagogue which still bore a Hebrew inscription over the doors.
74 The congregation was mostly young, unmarried, well-educated and upwardly mobile.
75 A preacher, victim of a wasting illness, would refer in the pulpit to his forthcoming demise without shocking his congregation.
76 Overhead, flights of pigeons wheeled through the minarets, cutting over the heads of the congregation towards the Red Fort.
77 What is possible for a large suburban congregation is out of the question for a tiny congregation in a rural situation.
78 We may well ask: where shall I begin in teaching a brand new congregation?
79 This had a record of superb parish priests and a full congregation.
80 She joined this congregation in 1650 and became a Fifth Monarchist in 1652.
81 Arguments started outside the congregation may spill over into it.
82 For many people assumed that such arrangements meant that each individual congregation would no longer have uninhibited control over its own property!
83 They're in the congregation so they naturally think of using the network.
84 Mr Schuller's local congregation is not altogether happy with his imperial style and church finances are suffering.
85 Married couples make up a large part of the church's congregation.
86 This in turn may influence the singing of a congregation, and make it flabby and dull.
87 Discipleship is far more than initiation into a particular congregation or even accepting the terms of membership prescribed by a particular denomination.
88 In retrospect the interracial character of the growing congregation on Azusa Street was indeed a kind of miracle.
89 New converts and transfers in should be introduced to the church leaders and members of the congregation.
90 At the front of the church, Emerson Seabreeze electric fans on wheeled stands faced the congregation.
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