pulpiteer
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pulpiteer
Example Sentences
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These words came from no Sunday pulpiteer, but from the assistant to the president of the Standard Oil Co. of Ohio.
From Time Magazine Archive
His sermons do not seem to be more remarkable when you read them than those of many another pulpiteer, although they are full of thought.
From The Young Man and the World by Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah
Mark how the stock words of the pulpiteer, "transgressor," "worldly lusts," "dreadful," "awful," "perdition" stalk fiercely through the sermon of the youthful saint or sinner!
From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 by Thompson, Slason
And the latter was an indefatigable pulpiteer; one of his University sermons is recorded to have lasted three mortal hours on end.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward
Society was to him an abstraction on which he discoursed like a pulpiteer.
From Cowper by Smith, Goldwin
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