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preachment

[preech-muh nt]
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noun
  1. the act of preaching.
  2. a sermon or other discourse, especially when obtrusive or tedious.
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Origin of preachment

1300–50; Middle English prechement < Old French preë(s)chement < Medieval Latin praedicāmentum speech; see predicament
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Related Words

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Examples from the Web for preachment

Historical Examples

  • I have a reason, a new one, for this preachment upon a text you have given me.

    Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9)

    Samuel Richardson

  • She has no preachment to offer and utters no rubbish on the subject of life and the problem.

    Adventures in the Arts

    Marsden Hartley

  • He may talk as if there were an iron determinism, but his practice is better than his preachment.

    A Preface to Politics

    Walter Lippmann

  • Yet the book is no "preachment" from a self-assumed pulpit, it is a novel simply.

    Her Ladyship's Elephant

    David Dwight Wells

  • But class animosity in the political world is the preachment of the revolutionists.

British Dictionary definitions for preachment

preachment

noun
  1. the act of preaching
  2. a tedious or pompous sermon or discourse
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Word Origin and History for preachment

n.

late 14c., "a preaching;" earlier "an annoying or tedious speech" (c.1300); see preach (v.) + -ment. Related: Preachments.

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