homiletic
adjective
of or relating to preaching or to homilies.
homiletical
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a variation of
homiletic.
Example Sentences
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Indeed, the discourse would have failed to satisfy most of those elementary canons upon which the homiletical professors lay such stress.
From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by J. Dodd (James Dodd) Jackson
There is a certain level of generality below which a cultivated sense of the proprieties in homiletical discourse will not permit a well-bred clergyman to decline in his discussion of temporal interests.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
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 Edmund Burke
Their productions may be classed under the heads of biblical, controversial, doctrinal, historical, and homiletical.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Anne C. Lynch Botta
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 William Elliot Griffis
