pulpiteer
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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
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 Carry Amelia Nation
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 Edward Conybeare
Society was to him an abstraction on which he discoursed like a pulpiteer.
From Cowper by Goldwin Smith
It is easy enough to impose on an ignorant congregation, and Dr. Hitchens is probably aware of the lengths to which a reckless pulpiteer may carry his mendacity.
From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote
