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
History that corrects the blunders of contemporary critics, will assign to her an honored place long after the paltry penny-a-liner and ranting pulpiteer are forgotten.
From The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation by Carry Amelia Nation
In their silence they were preaching to him a sermon such as no mortal pulpiteer ever uttered; but his ears were deaf to it.
From The Subterranean Brotherhood by Julian Hawthorne
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 Albert Jeremiah Beveridge
Society was to him an abstraction on which he discoursed like a pulpiteer.
From Cowper by Goldwin Smith
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