That part of a meeting-house occupied by persons who assist the preacher with occasional and irregular responses. Also, by analogy, a herd of political claqueurs.
1904. [They] were in their places in the “amen corner,” to the right of the crude pulpit.—W. N. Harben, ‘The Georgians,’ p. 67.
1910. The famous Amen corner in New York tries to keep up traditions, but without the old Fifth Avenue Hotel, and substituting for Platt, Depew, and Hiscock the names of McGill, Anderson, and Little, the recent acts are not of national importance.—Boston Herald, April 6.
