[
UK
/pɹˈiːtʃɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈpɹitʃɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹitʃɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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a moralistic rebuke
your preaching is wasted on him - an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)
How To Use preaching In A Sentence
- 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.
- I preached at myself to avoid preaching to my reader.
- The history of Christian missions, after all, is the chronicle of Western missionaries and their exploits, and the notion of missionaries from the East preaching to a godless Europe is the stuff of creative fiction. The Chinese are Coming
- I value logic and rationality in my preaching. Christianity Today
- From time to time I forsook my own thoughts to follow him, and I followed in amaze, mastered for the moment by his remarkable intellect, under the spell of his passion, for he was preaching the passion of revolt. Chapter 26
- I've been around for years, preaching the same message.
- Preaching to people who feel disenfranchised affects the way you address them. Christianity Today
- How shall we accomplish this divinizing task in our preaching?