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kirkgoer en · NOUN

Etymology

From kirk + goer.

Meanings

1. (Scotland) Someone who goes to kirk; a churchgoer.
   • But this lady has the stern face of a kirk-goer. 1976, Angela Carter, “My Father's House”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 20:
   • I am no great kirkgoer, for many reasons — and the sermon's one of them, and the first prayer another, but the chief and effectual reason is the stuffiness. 1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, letter

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