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preach
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[ verb ] (religion,education) deliver a sermon
Synonyms Examples "The minister is not preaching this Sunday" Used in print (Edward E. Kelly, S.J., "Christian Unity in England"...)Almost daily something is reported which feeds this Catholic hope in England : statistics of the increasing numbers of converts and Irish Catholic immigrants ; news of a Protestant minister in Leamington who has offered to allow a Catholic priest to preach from his pulpit ; a report that a Catholic nun had been requested to teach in a non-Catholic secondary_school during the sickness of one of its masters ; the startling statement in a respectable periodical that `` Catholics , if the present system is still in_operation , will constitute almost one-third of the House_of_Lords in the next generation '' ; a report that 200 Protestant clergymen and laity attended a votive Mass offered for Christian unity at a Catholic_church in Slough during the Church Unity Octave . (W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)He had preached a short sermon , trying to talk man-to-man to the audience , to tell them who he was , what he had done in Macon and Birmingham , and what he proposed to do here . (Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)Somewhere , beyond , where shadows lurked , must be the yawning pit of which Papa preached and the dreadful Lake_of_Fire . (Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)Furthermore , Bern decrees that we must do as we are ordered by the Council , preach only the word_of_God and stop meddling in politics '' ! (Evan Esar, Humorous English; a guide to comic ,...)`` Dearly beloved '' , he preached , `` unless you repent of your sins in a measure , and become converted to a degree , you will , I regret to say , be damned to a more_or_less extent '' . Related terms |
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[ verb ] speak, plead, or argue in favour of
Synonyms Examples "The doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house" Used in print (The Miami Herald...)To start the week of special programs at the church , the Rev._John_D._Henderson will preach on `` A Successful Marriage '' at 9 : 40 and 11 a. m._Sunday . ("National Affairs"...)All week long the President clearly was playing a larger personal role in foreign affairs ; in_effect , he was practicing what he preached in his Berlin message two_weeks ago when he declared : `` We shall always be prepared to discuss international problems with any and all nations that are willing to talk , and listen , with_reason '' . |
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