religious convention

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Then there are his gnomic utterances and the annual religious convention, the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, where Jobs regularly turns up to lay hands on his devotees.

From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2011

Ordinarily as liberal as any U. S. churchmen, the Unitarians voted down the resolution after many a delegate had argued that Labor was not a proper concern of a religious convention.

From Time Magazine Archive

A Concord judge and an old Free-Soil politician once attended a religious convention, and after the business of the day was over they went to walk together.

From The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Stearns, Frank Preston

He was returning from a long and dreary religious convention held in an eastern town, where one, Mr. Lyman Beecher, had stirred up against him the foremost divines of New York and Boston.

From The Mormon Prophet by Dougall, Lily

QUARTERNIONS, a religious convention held every hundred years.

From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Twain, Mark