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Word Meanings - PREACHMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A religious harangue; a sermon; -- used derogatively. Shak.

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  • SERMONEER
    A sermonizer. B. Jonson.
  • SERMONIZE
    1. To compose or write a sermon or sermons; to preach. 2. To inculcate rigid rules. Chesterfield.
  • HARANGUE
    A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting. Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed, Assemble, and harangues are heard. Milton.
  • SERMONING
    The act of discoursing; discourse; instruction; preaching. Chaucer.
  • SERMONET
    A short sermon.
  • SERMONISH
    Resembling a sermon.
  • HARANGUEFUL
    Full of harangue.
  • SERMONIC; SERMONICAL
    Like, or appropriate to, a sermon; grave and didactic. "Conversation . . . satirical or sermonic." Prof. Wilson. "Sermonical style." V. Knox.
  • SERMONIZER
    One who sermonizes.
  • RELIGIOUS
    1. Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars. Our law forbids
  • RELIGIOUSLY
    In a religious manner. Drayton.
  • RELIGIOUSNESS
    The quality of being religious.
  • SERMON
    onis, a speaking, discourse, probably fr. serer, sertum, to join, 1. A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermens of Chaucer. Chaucer. 2. Specifically, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of
  • SERMONER
    A preacher; a sermonizer. Thackeray.
  • SERMONIST
    See SERMONIZER
  • HARANGUER
    One who harangues, or is fond of haranguing; a declaimer. With them join'd all th' harangues of the throng, That thought to get preferment by the tongue. Dryden.
  • IRRELIGIOUS
    1. Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives or principles; ungodly. Cf. Impiou. Shame and reproach are generally the portion of the impious and irreligious. South. 2. Indicating a want of religion; profane; wicked; as, irreligious
  • IRRELIGIOUSNESS
    The state or quality of being irreligious; ungodliness.
  • UNRELIGIOUS
    Irreligious. Wordsworth.
  • IRRELIGIOUSLY
    In an irreligious manner.

 

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