pewdom

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noun

The system according to which certain people or certain social classes were allocated particular pews in the local church.

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Meanings

nounpewdom (uncountable)
  1. historicaluncountableChristianityThe system according to which certain people or certain social classes were allocated particular pews in the local church.

    […] and it was from the middle class that this system of pewdom took its rise.

    1886, The Parliamentary Debates, page 939
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    […] that the people who we say have been driven away, and kept away, from the church by pewdom, do go and build Dissenting meeting-houses. The supporters of these are not the very poor, nor the working classes, […]

    1879, Authorised Report of the Church Congress, page 113

Origin

From pew + -dom.

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