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

I write sermons in sport, he says; but sermons by a fellow-sinner, not by a dogmatic pulpiteer, not by a censor or a cynic.

From Horace by Tuckwell, William

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 Nation, Carry Amelia

Society was to him an abstraction on which he discoursed like a pulpiteer.

From Cowper by Smith, Goldwin

In their silence they were preaching to him a sermon such as no mortal pulpiteer ever uttered; but his ears were deaf to it.

From The Subterranean Brotherhood by Hawthorne, Julian