camp meeting

Noun

Meaning

religious (usually evangelistic) meeting held in a large tent or outdoors and lasting several days

Source: WordNet

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Examples

Synan 1997, p. 155. The new Assemblies of God would soon face a "new issue" which first emerged at a 1913 camp meeting. Source: Internet

Thanks to such leaders as Barton W. Stone (1772–1844) and Alexander Campbell (1788–1866), the camp meeting revival became a major mode of church expansion for the Methodists and Baptists. Source: Internet

Settlers in thinly populated areas gathered at the camp meeting for fellowship as well as worship. Source: Internet

The camp meeting was a religious service of several days' length with preachers. Source: Internet

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