temple-going

See also: templegoing

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

temple +‎ going

Adjective

temple-going (not comparable)

  1. Regularly attending a temple for worship.
    • 2004, Allan Kaprow, Childsplay: The Art of Allan Kaprow, Page 199
      The temple-going Zen religious sects
    • 2006, Jonathan Klawans, Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple, page 236:
      We need an approach that allows Jesus to articulate a message that can be reasonably attributed to a temple-going Jewish person of the first century CE.
    • 2011, Pankaj Jain, Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities
      Even the temple-going Jains know that the Jain ideal is to renounce householder life and to follow the path of their role models such as Mahavira

Noun

temple-going (uncountable)

  1. (uncommon) The practice of regularly attending a temple.
    • 2013, Steven Vertovec, The Hindu Diaspora: Comparative Patterns, Page 132
      Although the study of Hindu temple rituals and templegoing is […]
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