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
Society was to him an abstraction on which he discoursed like a pulpiteer.
From Cowper by Smith, Goldwin
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
I write sermons in sport, he says; but sermons by a fellow-sinner, not by a dogmatic pulpiteer, not by a censor or a cynic.
From Horace by Tuckwell, William
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 Nation, Carry Amelia
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