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camp meeting
noun
- a religious gathering held in a tent or in the open air.
camp meeting
noun
- a religious meeting held in a large tent or outdoors, often lasting several days
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Word History and Origins
Origin of camp meeting1
First recorded in 1790–1800
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Example Sentences
He said it warn't no use talking, heathens don't amount to shucks alongside of pirates to work a camp-meeting with.
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The king got the directions, and allowed he'd go and work that camp-meeting for all it was worth, and I might go, too.
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Sal Furbush generally took the lead, and mounting the kitchen table, sung camp meeting hymns as loud as she could scream.
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Down at the camp-meeting I promised God to love my enemies, uncle.
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He claimed always to be rigidly righteous, and was seen in the camp-meeting and the church sanctified and demure to a proverb.
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