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单词 pewful
释义

pewful

English

Etymology

pew + -ful

Noun

pewful (plural pewfuls or pewsful)

  1. An amount sufficient to fill a pew.
    • 1850, Thomas P[orteous] Callender, Memoir of the Late Rev. Thomas P. Callender, Missionary to Jamaica. With a Selection from His Pulpit Discourses., Edinburgh: William Oliphant and Sons; London: Hamilton, Adams and Co.; Glasgow: David Robertson, page 9:
      (On these two pewsful you will not wonder at me refraining from looking a second time.) Around and beneath sat many an aged, many an experienced saint, to give edification to whom seemed less becoming than to receive it from them; many a friend in whose converse I had delighted; many a companion of my youth; many an erring fellow man, to all of whom I in my weaknesss was now to speak—and on what subject?
    • 1871 December 25, “Christmastide at the Churches”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 5,159, London, page 2:
      At St. Ann’s, Soho, Canon Gregory was preaching for the schools, and I saw no decorations; but the fact was I had lost my bearings, and furtively opened a door which brought me suddenly face to face with whole pewsful of people; so I beat a quicker retreat than even from a suspicious pew-opener or supercilious beadle.
    • 1896, Hubert Crackanthorpe, "Anthony Garstin's Courtship", The Savoy, July 1896:
      The scanty congregation, who had been sitting, stolidly immobile in their stiff, Sunday clothes, shuffled to their feet, and the pewful of school-children, in clamorous chorus, intoned the final hymn.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pewful.

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