Preachment

Word PREACHMENT
Character 10
Hyphenation preach ment
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Preachment"

What do we mean by preachment?

The act of preaching. noun

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

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

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

An instance of preaching; a sermon or homily noun

A sermon on a moral or religious topic noun

(now chiefly depreciative) Preaching; sermonizing.

An instance of preaching; a sermon or homily.

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The word "preachment" in example sentences

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.) ❋ Unknown (1932)

Can you bear with such a long answer to your letter, and forbear calling it a 'preachment'? ❋ Unknown (1907)

The first grand lesson for you to learn (you must have patience with a little more "preachment") is that the beauty of your building cannot be thrust upon it, but must be born with it, must be an inseparable part of it, the result and evidence of its real worth. ❋ Unknown (1875)

One Bar Boy at the University Club to embark on his great preachment revival. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But class animosity in the political world is the preachment of the revolutionists. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Standing, barefooted in the dew-lush grass of spring on the Minnesota farm, chilblained when of frosty mornings I fed the cattle in their breath-steaming stalls, sobered to fear and awe of the splendor and terror of God when I sat of Sundays under the rant and preachment of the New Jerusalem and the agonies of hell-fire. ❋ Unknown (2010)

During this period, Eisenhower embodied the wisdom of his preachment that “plans are worthless but planning is everything,” enabling him to “do the normal thing when everyone else is going nuts.” ❋ David A. Nichols (2011)

It is the prime preachment of socialism that the struggle is a class struggle. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In a way, it was almost as immoral as the far-famed and notorious "Message to Garcia," while in its pernicious preachment of thrift and content it ran "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" a close second. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Much Saxon remembered of that mad preachment, much she guessed and felt, and much had been beyond her experience and understanding. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Overt politics and preachment were eschewed -- mostly. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Although he eventually typed himself as a director of epics, in the broad range of a forty-six-year directorial career that encompassed seventy films, he directed every kind of movie: comedy, fantasy, social preachment, western, suspense, war, musical comedy. ❋ Scott Eyman (2010)

He crossed over to the labor-ghetto south of the slot for six months and there wrote The Unskilled Laborer, hailed everywhere as "almost as immoral as the far-famed and notorious 'Message to Garcia,' whilst in its pernicious preachment of thrift and content it ran 'Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch' a close second." ❋ Unknown (2008)

This brief preachment praised an exploit in Cuba in the Spanish-American War in which a U.S. Army officer, Andrew S. Rowan, volunteered as courier to carry an official message deep in the jungle to an insurgent general, Calixto Garcia. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Iron Heel has rich and powerful moments but devolves into too egregious a socialistic preachment. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The boycott of autology: As engineered by the Chicago Medical Society and the American Medical Association; with an introductory preachment how to keep well by Elbert Hubbard by Anna Stamm Moras ❋ Unknown (2009)

“We are busy, father,” said the Governor, “and will hear your preachment another time.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

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