Word Meanings - PREACHMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A religious harangue; a sermon; -- used derogatively. Shak.

Related words: (words related to PREACHMENT)

• SERMONEER
  A sermonizer. B. Jonson.
• SERMONIZE
  1. To compose or write a sermon or sermons; to preach. 2. To inculcate rigid rules. Chesterfield.
• HARANGUE
  A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting. Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed, Assemble, and harangues are heard. Milton.
• SERMONING
  The act of discoursing; discourse; instruction; preaching. Chaucer.
• SERMONET
  A short sermon.
• SERMONISH
  Resembling a sermon.
• HARANGUEFUL
  Full of harangue.
• SERMONIC; SERMONICAL
  Like, or appropriate to, a sermon; grave and didactic. "Conversation . . . satirical or sermonic." Prof. Wilson. "Sermonical style." V. Knox.
• SERMONIZER
  One who sermonizes.
• RELIGIOUS
  1. Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars. Our law forbids
• RELIGIOUSLY
  In a religious manner. Drayton.
• RELIGIOUSNESS
  The quality of being religious.
• SERMON
  onis, a speaking, discourse, probably fr. serer, sertum, to join, 1. A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermens of Chaucer. Chaucer. 2. Specifically, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of
• SERMONER
  A preacher; a sermonizer. Thackeray.
• SERMONIST
  See SERMONIZER
• HARANGUER
  One who harangues, or is fond of haranguing; a declaimer. With them join'd all th' harangues of the throng, That thought to get preferment by the tongue. Dryden.
• IRRELIGIOUS
  1. Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives or principles; ungodly. Cf. Impiou. Shame and reproach are generally the portion of the impious and irreligious. South. 2. Indicating a want of religion; profane; wicked; as, irreligious
• IRRELIGIOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being irreligious; ungodliness.
• UNRELIGIOUS
  Irreligious. Wordsworth.
• IRRELIGIOUSLY
  In an irreligious manner.