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Collective nouns: a noun that denotes a collection of persons or things regarded as a unit.

You get all the (un)usual ones: a wing of aircraft, a batch of bread, a vagary of impediments, a parliament of owls, a cog of robots, a blessing of unicorns…

But what about collective nouns for faith stuff?

A hallelujah of worship services? A roost of archdeacons? A meme of macs?

Other suggestions?

5 comments:

LauraHD said...

A small group of Sanctimonians?

Anonymous said...

I guess you came across this site on your travels already...

http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/

Some of my favourites:

A dilation of pupils
A geek of engineers
A glossolalia of pentacostals
A wiggle of Elvis impersonators

Fat Roland said...

A drone of sermons.

A rave of angels.

An absence of Richards.

An anal retention of bloggers.

A scandal of priests.

Unknown said...

I understand that the genuine collective noun for priests is "knob".

A knob of Priests.

Others:

A blush of boys.

An unkindness of ravens.

Myn said...

A charisma of evangelicals?

A fund of mentalists?

A mass of services?

A sandal of alternative worshippers?