English
Noun
en-noun
- An attendee; one who attends a course, meeting etc.
#*1850, William Ellis, Alice Ellis, and James Backhouse, The Life and Correspondence of William and Alice Ellis, of Airton, page 305, H. Longstreth
#*: She was a very constant attender of First-day and week-day meetings, at the meeting places she belonged to
#*1900, James Wideman Lee, Naphtali Luccock, and James Main Dixon, The Illustrated History of Methodism, page 345, The Methodist Magazine Publishing Co.
#*: And she continued her infamous trade of procuress, while a zealous and regular attender of the Tabernacle at Tottenham-Court!
#*1950, Harold Spears, The High School for Today, page 2, American Book Co.
#*: The great distance that some youth travel...is bound to play its part in the case of the borderline student who becomes an infrequent attender and finally drops out of school.
#*2000, Linda Woodhead and Paul Heelas, Religion in Modern Times: An Anthology, page 401, Blackwell Publishing
#*: If there is no spiritual distinction between member and attender, the question is asked, Why have membership at all?
- metaphysics The subject; one who experiences.
#*1873, Sara S. Hennell, Present Religion: As a Faith Owning Fellowship with Thought, page 159, Trübner and Co.
#*: the whole process of ages�-long mentalization, of which our present ability of conceiving �Mind� forms only the culmination, and by no means the constant attender.
#*1954, Wilmon Henry Sheldon, God and Polarity: A Synthesis of Philosophies, page 48, Yale University Press
#*: Activity of attention for the sake of knowledge changes only the mind of the attender and is resisted only by the habits, biases, laziness and the like
#*1996 July, Daniel A. Helminiak, The Human Core of Spirituality: Mind as Psyche and Spirit, page 53, State University of New York Press
#*: The other aspect pertains to the subject�s own subjectivity, those qualities that constitute the subject as the experiencer or attender.
Quotations
1969, University of Melbourne Library: Report, page 1, Melbourne University Press
References
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
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