"pewdom" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1879, Authorised Report of the Church Congress, page 113:",
          "text": "[…] that the people who we say have been driven away, and kept away, from the church by pewdom, do go and build Dissenting meeting-houses. The supporters of these are not the very poor, nor the working classes, […]",
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          "text": "[…] and it was from the middle class that this system of pewdom took its rise.",
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        "(Christianity, historical) The system according to which certain people or certain social classes were allocated particular pews in the local church."
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