preaching

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Word Origin & History

at first in late Old English predician, a loan word from Church Latin; reborrowed 12c. as preachen, from Old French preechier "to preach, give a sermon" (11c., Modern French précher), from Late Latin praedicare "to proclaim publicly, announce" (in Medieval Latin "to preach"), from Latin prae "before" (see pre-) + dicare "to proclaim, to say" (see diction). Related: Preached; preaching. To preach to the converted is recorded from 1867 (form preach to the choir attested from 1979).

Example Sentences for preaching

He could not avoid contrasting this behaviour with his past preaching.

Staples once that I did n't see but that the Doctor could beat him at preaching.

Yet the old carpenter's preaching is, methinks, more to your taste.

Bunyan's preaching enterprise became an extraordinary success.

The wife at once said that he dared not leave off preaching as long as he could speak.

The literary man may indignantly repudiate the idea of “preaching.”

Such expenditure, when you have just been preaching economy on my trousseau!

All the devout women of the town were full of excitement about his preaching.

I begun to git shaky at the knees, as if I was preaching to a big congregation.

Csar returned home from a preaching tour with a great and sudden thought.

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