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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Habitually attending church: as, he is not a church-going man; the church-going classes.
  2. n. The act or practice of going to church.
  3. Giving notice to go to church; summoning to church.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Who regularly attends church
  2. n. The practice of regularly attending church

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Habitually attending church.
  2. adj. Summoning to church.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. actively practicing a religion

Examples

  • “What is the attitude of her community towards her lapse in churchgoing?”

    Clara Callan by Richard B Wright: Questions

  • “Thus my churchgoing was a merely symbolical and provisional practice.”

    Surprised by Joy

  • “If so, you do not recognize leadership and the execution of a brilliant tactic, that puts Democrats back in play with that'churchgoing 'partof the electorate.”

    Obama: Let's End "Divisive Politics And Tit-For-Tat"

  • “Since these are interviews with the same people at different points in time, we can be confident that the emergence of the religiosity divide has entailed some individual-level change, as churchgoing and partisanship have come into alignment.”

    Simon & Schuster: American Grace

  • “According to the National Election Studies archives, weekly churchgoing among college-educated white men almost doubled in little more than a decade between 1952 and 1964 from about 29 percent to about 53 percent.”

    Simon & Schuster: American Grace

  • “Of white men aged twenty-one to thirty-four, weekly churchgoing rose from 28 percent in 1952 to 44 percent in 1964.”

    Simon & Schuster: American Grace

  • “However, virtually all the other commonly cited reasons for churchgoing were more social than theological.”

    Simon & Schuster: American Grace

  • “The most heavily Republican portion of the churchgoing population is people who rely on religion when making political decisions and are embedded in a dense religious social network, not the people who hear the most politics in church.28”

    Simon & Schuster: American Grace

  • “The postwar boom in churchgoing was fueled above all by men who had survived the Great Depression as teenagers and World War II as grunts, and were now ready at last to settle into a normal life, with a steady job, a growing family, a new house and car, and respectable middle-class status.”

    Simon & Schuster: American Grace

  • “Then, as now, getting married, settling down, and raising children were associated with more regular churchgoing.”

    Simon & Schuster: American Grace

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