Literary notes about Denomination (AI summary)
The word "denomination" in literature has been used with remarkable versatility, functioning as a marker of both religious affiliation and formal classification. In several texts, it denotes organized religious groups or sects, as evidenced by its use in referring to diverse church groups or movements ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]). At the same time, authors like Rabelais and others employ the term to signify titles or appellations, whether it be a noble designation ([8], [9], [10]) or even an identity in a more conversational tone ([11], [12], [13]). Beyond these realms, the word extends into secular territories, serving as a term for categorization or value assignment, as seen in mathematical or philosophical contexts ([14], [15]). This multifaceted employment underscores how "denomination" can encapsulate both social and ideological classifications, linking aspects of hierarchy, religious tradition, and systematic enumeration.
- I lectured in every part of my new land, and addressed hundreds of clubs, colleges, churches, and groups of every denomination.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - The Methodists still form the second greatest denomination, with nearly a million members.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois - More recently she has been ordained in the Universalist Church, and enjoys equal rights and honors with the clergymen of that denomination.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - Church of denomination to which family belongs.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - There is not a denomination in this country which places woman on an equality with man.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - Many of the laws that are complained of were enacted when there were few or none of any other denomination in the land.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs by John Foxe - Such too, to a greater or less extent, is the condition of the operatives of every denomination in England, which is the great workhouse of the world.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau - And a fourth breaks forth at once in all the splendour of a gay equipage, under the title and denomination of a foreign count.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. Smollett - It is truly Mixarchagenas, returned Epistemon, if thou likest better that denomination, which the Argives give him.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais - In confirmation of which opinion of mine, the customary style of my language alloweth them the denomination of presage women.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais - I said, "Now, you belong to another denomination.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein - One call'd me over to him and ask'd me in a low tone what denomination I belong'd to.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - I said to him, "Young man, you will learn, when you get a little older, that you cannot trust another denomination to read the Bible for you."
— from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein - There must be some value given for each denomination—pounds, shillings, pence, and farthings—and the nought may not be used.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney - In all which we shall find some kind of affirmation or negation, which is the reason of that denomination.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 by John Locke
