homiletical
- a variation of homiletic.
Example Sentences
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Some months later, however, at the bottom of the homiletical barrel, he found a few old acquaintances, in threadbare and tattered guise, smiling reproachfully out of the dust of an undeserved oblivion.
From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Cross, Joseph
There is scarcely a chapter in all the Old Testament, and to a less degree in the New Testament, which may not be thus ingeniously transmogrified to meet almost any homiletical emergency.
From Preaching and Paganism by Fitch, Albert Parker
These words, which we treat, almost unconsciously, as the exaggeration of homiletical appeal, state no more than the sober possibility, the experience attained by many a Christian in circumstances of the greatest suffering and deprivation.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.
Indeed, most of their homiletical and illustrative material is still derived directly therefrom.
From The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by Griffis, William Elliot
But, without seeking to be homiletical, let the writer be permitted to add, a far higher purpose than mere literary amusement, or the gratification of taste, is designed by the present volume.
From Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Burke, Edmund
