catechizing
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A Clergyman engaged in catechizing a village school, asked a youngster, “what his godfathers and godmothers did for him?”
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018
Evelyn seems to have got off with only a severe catechizing; but many of his fellow-worshippers were imprisoned, and otherwise severely punished.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various
In preaching, catechizing, visiting, and holding religious meetings he was indefatigable, and spared no pains to guard his people from doctrinal error or spiritual decline.
From Fletcher of Madeley by Frederic W. Macdonald
A surly man would not perhaps have answered at all, resenting this catechizing; but Christopher was not surly, and not at all offended.
From A Red Wallflower by Susan Warner
Preaching and catechizing, fasting and thanksgiving, were duly observed.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Rossiter Johnson
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