pewdom
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The system according to which certain people or certain social classes were allocated particular pews in the local church.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "[…] that the people who we say have been driven away, and kept away, from the church by pewdom, do go and build Dissenting meeting-houses. The supporters of these are not the very poor, nor the working classes, […]"
- "[…] and it was from the middle class that this system of pewdom took its rise."