Meaning of pewdom | Babel Free

Definitions

The system according to which certain people or certain social classes were allocated particular pews in the local church.

historical, uncountable

Examples

“[…] 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.”

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