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US
/ˈpɹitʃ/
]
[ UK /pɹˈiːtʃ/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈiːtʃ/ ]
VERB
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deliver a sermon
The minister is not preaching this Sunday -
speak, plead, or argue in favor of
The doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house
How To Use preach In A Sentence
- Naa, Mr. Penrose, yo 'preachers talk abaat th' Cross, and it's o 'reet that yo' should; but yo 'cannot blame me for talkin' abaat my flute, con yo ', when it's bin my salvation? Lancashire Idylls (1898)
- Clinton will fight for the American people, and Obama will sit in a racest church for another 20 years where The "rev" is preaching hate, racism, and black seperatism. Clinton: Put down the Blackberry at home
- National Provisions Company, and went out preaching fiat money and a subtreasury for the farmers 'crops, trusting to God and the flower garden about his little white house, to keep the family alive -- it is odd that Jeanette's childish impression was that General Ward was a man of consequence in the world. A Certain Rich Man
- Indeed, there's reason to hope that even the most benighted moral equivocators may come to realize that the message is the exact opposite of the one they've been preaching.
- Among Baptist preachers, the most formative figure in the area of homiletics was John Broadus.
- We want to defer the exorbitant, latter-day costs of all that energy binging, masquerading as democracy "preachifying"? Alec Baldwin: It's Time To Suck It Up And Pay Our Bill
- Preachers paid for time to sermonize, listeners could call in, some slots were reserved for Christian music.
- Machiavelli was a chief target of the philoso - phes because he preached an amoralistic selfishness which promoted despotic arbitrariness. MACHIAVELLISM
- The WSJ recently had an article about an antitheist ‘preacher’ as it were, who was giving anti-religious sermons to large crowds in France. Matthew Yglesias » The New Atheism
- The preacher pushed his plate away and Lottie rose to clear the table.