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Preachment

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act of preaching.

n. A tiresome or unwelcome moral lecture or discourse; tedious sermonizing.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An instance of preaching; a sermon or homily

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A sermon; a lecture upon moral or religious subjects; hence, in contempt, any discourse affectedly solemn, or full of obtrusive or tedious advice.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a sermon on a moral or religious topic

Word Usage

"I am afraid that may he a popular slogan, that it captures the fancy of Main Street and Babbitry, but sooner or later our fellow citizens have to learn that that sort of preachment is demagogic and ruinous (Hear, hear.) (Applause.)"

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

sermon preaching discourse

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

sermon preaching discourse

Same Context

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