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Membership

noun

The body of members of an organization or group. Synonym: rank. "They found dissension in their own ranks" , "He joined the ranks of the unemployed"

The state of being a member.

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"Membership" Quotes from Famous Books

... how closely knit To stars and flowers we are, how many means Of grace there are for those that never lose Their sense of membership in this divine Body of God; for those that all their days Have walked in quiet communion with the Life That keeps the common secret of the sun, The wind, the silence and the heart of man. There is one God, one Love, one everlasting Mystery of ...

— The New Morning - Poems • Alfred Noyes

... for river information by a stranger—for the success of the St. Louis and New Orleans association had now bred tolerably thriving branches in a dozen neighboring steamboat trades—was the association man's sign and diploma of membership; and if the stranger did not respond by producing a similar key and holding it in a certain manner duly prescribed, his question was politely ignored. From the association's secretary each member received a package of more or less gorgeous blanks, printed like a billhead, ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... is a non-profit, scholarly organization, run without overhead expense. By careful management it is able to offer at least six publications each year at the unusually low membership fee of $2.50 per year in the United States and Canada, and $2.75 in Great Britain and ...

— De Carmine Pastorali (1684) • Rene Rapin

... the representment of the religious life of the nation as historically worked out and by means of property and discipline enabled to discharge, so far as outward discharge can insure it, the effectual performance of the duties that membership of a Christian Church involves. It means the national recognition of a system by which every inch of land in England, and every living soul in the population is assigned to a ministration of help, teaching, advice, ...

— The Church: Her Books and Her Sacraments • E. E. Holmes

... questions in ordinary case would be given by describing the organisation of the body concerned. We could then say what is the authority which speaks in its name; and what is the legislature which makes its laws, alters its arrangements, and defines the terms of membership. The supreme legislature of the church of England might appear to be parliament. It is the Act of Uniformity which defines the profession of belief exacted from the clergy; and no alteration could be made in regard to the rights and duties of the clergy except by parliamentary ...

— The English Utilitarians, Volume I. • Leslie Stephen

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