| 单词 | protracted meeting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprotracted meeting protracted meeting n. North American (now chiefly historical) a religious meeting lasting for several days.Though quot. 1829 refers to a two-day meeting for the religious instruction of the Choctaw, it appears not to represent the established compound. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > council > [noun] > protracted protracted meeting1831 protract1908 1829 Missionary Herald (Boston) Oct. 321/1 The Indian mode of living, as to food and exposure, prevents their suffering any inconvenience from these protracted meetings held in the open air.] 1831 Boston Recorder 6 Apr. 54/5 You have probably seen..some brief accounts of religious meetings, continued, with little interruption, from morning till evening and from day to day, for the space of three, four, and in some instances, even ten days... Although these protracted meetings are of recent date; yet there has been sufficient time..to show their utility. 1832 Patriot & Farmer's Monitor (Kingston, Upper Canada) 10 Apr. 2/6 It is now required of the Episcopal Methodist preachers, to make the public acquainted with their motives for establishing Protracted Meetings. 1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature I. i. 2 It's a gentleman that calculates to hold a protracted meeten here to night. 1908 ‘E. C. Hall’ Aunt Jane of Kentucky (1909) i. 24 We went home feelin' like we'd been through a big protracted meetin' and got religion over again. 1948 Z. N. Hurston Seraph on Suwanee i. 3 During ‘protracted meeting’,..most anybody was liable to get full of the spirit and shout in church. 2000 R. Carwardine in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 622/1 Methodists..did more than any others during the second Great Awakening (c. 1800–c. 1840) to..develop..and market new means of mass conversion: ‘protracted meetings’, full-time evangelists, and ‘anxious benches’. < as lemmas |
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