churchgoer

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English

Etymology

From church +‎ goer.

Noun

churchgoer (plural churchgoers)

  1. One who regularly goes to church; a practicing Christian.
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 11:
      Well, one Christmas Eve, just like to-night, she thought she would go to the morning service on the Christmas Day, for she was a great church-goer, and so she left out some coffee with the girl before she went to bed, that she might get a cup next morning she was sure a cup of warm coffee would do her a great deal of good at that early hour!
    • 1985, Joy Davidman, Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments, →ISBN, page 58:
      A forced churchgoer has no religion, a terrified churchgoer has no Christianity, a bribed churchgoer has no morals.

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