preachment
Americannoun
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the act of preaching
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a tedious or pompous sermon or discourse
Etymology
Origin of preachment
1300–50; Middle English prechement < Old French preë ( s ) chement < Medieval Latin praedicāmentum speech; see predicament
Example Sentences
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It may well be called a preachment for peace.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2022
At its considerable best, “Skeleton Crew” practices that preachment; its characters are not just building blocks in a moral tale but a pleasure for actors to perform and thus for audiences to experience.
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2022
It’s not that the religious impulse left him; rather, he transferred it to his writing and to his myriad civic activities, all of which had a strong quality of moral preachment.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019
He sounds less like a human than like a sacred scroll, speaking in placid phrases of bodiless, archetypal preachment: “I would advise you kindly, Suleyman, against this course of action.”
From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018
I was beginning to realize what that preachment meant: "The college will give you back all that you give to it in work."
From The Seven-Branched Candlestick The Schooldays of Young American Jew by Gilbert W.
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