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Definition of Camp meeting
1. Noun. Religious (usually evangelistic) meeting held in a large tent or outdoors and lasting several days.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Camp Meeting
Literary usage of Camp meeting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chautauqua Movement by John Heyl Vincent (1885)
"But a "camp-meeting" it was not, in any sense, except that the most of us ...
There had been before the Assembly a camp-meeting at " Fair Point," the old ..."
2. Sketches of Western Methodism: Biographical, Historical, and Miscellaneous by James Bradley Finley, William Burke, William Peter Strickland (1857)
"INDIAN camp meeting. IN the year 1828, a short time after we left the Indian nation,
... We have called this the "Indian camp meeting," because, ..."
3. History of the Discovery and Settlement of the Valley of the Mississippi: By by John Wesley Monette (1848)
"... religious "Awakenings," or " Revivals," in the West; " Camp-meeting" Scene;
Origin of camp meetings in Kentucky and Tennessee; camp meeting at Cane ..."
4. Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico by John Russell Bartlett (1854)
"... Boggy road—Want of water—Dry lake—Reach the Mexican Camp— Meeting of the Joint
Commission—Mr. Gray's objection to the Boundary—March resumed—Mules ..."
5. The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: From 1817-1882 by Frederick Douglass, John Lobb (1882)
"St. Michaels and its inhabitants—Captain Auld—His new wife—Sufferings from
hunger—Forced to steal—Argument in vindication thereof—Southern camp-meeting—What ..."
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