"attender" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1850, William Ellis, Alice Ellis, James Backhouse, The Life and Correspondence of William and Alice Ellis, of Airton, H. Longstreth, page 305:",
          "text": "She was a very constant attender of First-day and week-day meetings, at the meeting places she belonged to",
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          "text": "1900, James Wideman Lee, Naphtali Luccock, and James Main Dixon, The Illustrated History of Methodism, page 345, The Methodist Magazine Publishing Co.\nAnd she continued her infamous trade of procuress, while a zealous and regular attender of the Tabernacle at Tottenham-Court!"
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          "ref": "1950, Harold Spears, The High School for Today, American Book Co., page 2:",
          "text": "The great distance that some youth travel...is bound to play its part in the case of the borderline student who becomes an infrequent attender and finally drops out of school.",
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          "text": "If there is no spiritual distinction between member and attender, the question is asked, Why have membership at all?",
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          "ref": "1873, Sara S. Hennell, Present Religion: As a Faith Owning Fellowship with Thought, Trübner and Co., page 159:",
          "text": "the whole process of ages’-long mentalization, of which our present ability of conceiving “Mind” forms only the culmination, and by no means the constant attender.",
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          "ref": "1954, Wilmon Henry Sheldon, God and Polarity: A Synthesis of Philosophies, Yale University Press, page 48:",
          "text": "Activity of attention for the sake of knowledge changes only the mind of the attender and is resisted only by the habits, biases, laziness and the like",
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          "ref": "1996 July, Daniel A. Helminiak, The Human Core of Spirituality: Mind as Psyche and Spirit, State University of New York Press, page 53:",
          "text": "The other aspect pertains to the subject’s own subjectivity, those qualities that constitute the subject as the experiencer or attender.",
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