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conventicle

(n): a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship
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23 minutes ago chained_bear said:

"Everyone knew that Old Tidmarsh the Quaker held some grotesque conventicle in his little house down by the river."
—Iain Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost (New York: Riverhead Books, 1998), 241

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