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tract society

noun

  1. a society that publishes and distributes religious pamphlets.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of tract society1

An Americanism dating back to 1750–60

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Example Sentences

Rev. Mr. Alvord, the agent of a Tract Society, gives the following account of their labors.

The Tract Society could afford to print that story of Putnam.

What has jarred and shaken the great American Tract Society recently,—not yet splitting it, but sure to divide it in the end?

We had plenty of anecdotes, but they were all poor and pointless—Tract Society anecdotes of the feeblest kind.

A temperance society, a dispensary, a tract society, and a literary association (the Hamilton) were organized.

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