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

SW. of Carlisle; manufactures woollens, hardware, and lead-pencils; is the seat of an annual religious convention which gives its name to a phase of Evangelicalism.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

Fair visions of a life untrammeled by creed or religious convention hovered at times that night before his mental gaze.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis

To-day I read in one of our newspapers an account of a religious convention which is going on in our city.

From The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder by McClung, Nellie L.