temple-going

adjective

Regularly attending a temple for worship.

Meanings

adjectivetemple-going (not comparable)

alternative templegoing

  1. not comparableRegularly attending a temple for worship.

    The temple-going Zen religious sects

    2004, Allan Kaprow, Childsplay: The Art of Allan Kaprow, Page 199
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    We need an approach that allows Jesus to articulate a message that can be reasonably attributed to a temple-going Jewish person of the first century CE.

    2006, Jonathan Klawans, Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple, page 236

    Even the temple-going Jains know that the Jain ideal is to renounce householder life and to follow the path of their role models such as Mahavira

    2011, Pankaj Jain, Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities
nountemple-going (uncountable)

alternative templegoing

  1. uncommonuncountableThe practice of regularly attending a temple.

    Although the study of Hindu temple rituals and templegoing is […]

    2013, Steven Vertovec, The Hindu Diaspora: Comparative Patterns, Page 132

Origin

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