retreatantn.
/rᵻˈtriːt(ə)nt/, U.S. /rəˈtridnt/, /riˈtridnt/ A person who attends a retreat, esp. a religious retreat.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > contemplation or meditation > [noun] > period of > one who takes part in
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1860 Eccl. & Theologian 22 479 Probably under our present circumstances it will be impossible ordinarily to find any other home for retreatants than a parsonage.
1899 Month May 466 The nuns have placed large rooms and dormitories at the disposal of the retreatants.
1937 E. Underhill Worship (ed. 3) xv. 338 In 1932 it had twenty-two Diocesan Houses and over thirty belonging to religious communities. Some of these houses receive over one thousand retreatants yearly.
1977 Christian 4 217 Retreatants are numerous, serious, of all age groups and of different social backgrounds.
1992 Harper's Mag. Jan. 72/3 I had seen the phrase in a brochure for retreatants given to me by Mike Baxter.
2003 Guardian 1 Feb. (Travel section) 12/3 It turns out that mass for the retreatants was held in the room where we do yoga.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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