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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(Christianity, historical) The system according to which certain people or certain social classes were allocated particular pews in the local church..
[…] 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, […]
[…] and it was from the middle class that this system of pewdom took its rise.
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Pewdom means (Christianity, historical) The system according to which certain people or certain social classes were allocated particular pews in the local church..
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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, […]
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