homilist

[ hom-uh-list ]

noun

1. a person who writes or delivers homilies.

Word History and Origins

Origin of homilist¹

First recorded in 1610–20; homil(y) + -ist

Example Sentences

And yet, by a practised homilist, a good deal could be done with it with which to score off poor human nature.

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Colum Cille is the only saint whom the homilist will allow to approach his hero.

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His great success was the publication of a magazine for preachers, under the title of The Homilist.

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No emperor's name is cited by the homilist; and the date of the revolt seems to have been left wholly to conjecture.

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In Hermas there is special affinity to the language and thought of the epistle of James, and in the homilist to those of Paul.

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