preachment

IPA: prˈitʃmʌnt

noun

  • (now chiefly depreciative) Preaching; sermonizing.
  • An instance of preaching; a sermon or homily.
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Examples of "preachment" in Sentences

  • One Bar Boy at the University Club to embark on his great preachment revival.
  • It is the prime preachment of socialism that the struggle is a class struggle.
  • But class animosity in the political world is the preachment of the revolutionists.
  • Can you bear with such a long answer to your letter, and forbear calling it a 'preachment'?
  • Much Saxon remembered of that mad preachment, much she guessed and felt, and much had been beyond her experience and understanding.
  • 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.
  • 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.)
  • 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.
  • 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.

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