Both Uses of
congregation
in
Much Ado About Nothing
- If I see anything to-night why I should not marry her to-morrow, in the congregation, where I should wed, there will I shame her.†
Scene 3.2 *congregation = people who worship together in the same building
- Two of them did, the prince and Claudio; but the devil my master, knew she was Margaret; and partly by his oaths, which first possessed them, partly by the dark night, which did deceive them, but chiefly by my villany, which did confirm any slander that Don John had made, away went Claudio enraged; swore he would meet her, as he was appointed, next morning at the temple, and there, before the whole congregation, shame her with what he saw o'er night, and send her home again without a husband.†
Scene 3.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(congregation as in: the congregation voted) people who worship together in the same building
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, congregation can reference any group of people, animals, or things collected together.