homiletical

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Their productions may be classed under the heads of biblical, controversial, doctrinal, historical, and homiletical.

From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch

This was the homiletical method which Zeal of the Land used in his discourse at the fair.

From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord

But, without seeking to be homiletical, let the writer be permitted to add, a far higher purpose than mere literary amusement, or the gratification of taste, is designed by the present volume.

From Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Burke, Edmund

There is a certain level of generality below which a cultivated sense of the proprieties in homiletical discourse will not permit a well-bred clergyman to decline in his discussion of temporal interests.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein

Herder’s own homiletical style during this period, as evinced by the sermons preserved to us, betrays no trace of Sterne’s influence.

From Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Hewett-Thayer, Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman)