A person who regularly attends church services; someone who is a practicing member of a church congregation.
Compound of 'church' and 'goer,' formed by adding the agent suffix -er to the phrasal verb 'church-go.' The suffix -er creates a noun describing someone who performs an action.
Churchgoer became a common term in 19th-century English as church attendance became a measurable social fact. Census data, literature, and sermons all suddenly started counting 'churchgoers,' turning faith into a statistical category.
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