Preaching

  • 21preaching cross — noun : a cross sometimes surmounting a pulpit erected outdoors at a preaching place * * * preaching cross, a cross formerly erected to mark a place for open air preaching, as by monks …

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  • 22Preaching cross — A Preaching cross is a cross, sometimes surmounting a pulpit, erected out of doors to designate a preaching place.In Britain and Ireland many free standing upright crosses – or high crosses – were erected. Some of these crosses bear figurative or …

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  • 23Preaching Lies to the Righteous — Infobox Album | Name = Preaching Lies to the Righteous Type = Album Artist = Blue October UK Background = orange Released = April 2001 Recorded = Genre = synthpop Length = Label = A Different Drum Producer = Blue October and Paul Dudley Preaching …

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  • 24preaching friar — Blackfriar Blackfriar, Black friar Black fri ar (Eccl.) A friar of the Dominican order, so named becaise wearing wearing the black mantle of the Dominicans; called also {predicant} and {preaching friar}; in France, {Jacobin}. Also, sometimes, a… …

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  • 25preaching friars — Dominican Do*min i*can, prop. n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221. The first foundation in the United States was made in 1807. The… …

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  • 26preaching to the choir —    If someone preaches to the choir, they talking about a subject or issue with which their audience already agrees. ( Preaching to the converted is an alternative form.)   (Dorking School Dictionary) …

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  • 27preaching to the converted —    A person who preaches to the converted is encouraging people to support an idea that they already agree with.     Talking to athletes about the virtues of sport is preaching to the converted …

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  • 28preaching friar — Blackfriar, Dominican, Jacobin, predicant, preaching brother, frère prêcheur …

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  • 29preaching — noun The act of delivering a sermon or similar moral instruction …

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  • 30preaching — Synonyms and related words: allurement, blandishment, cajolement, cajolery, coaxing, conning, discourse, engagement, enlistment, exhortation, homily, hortation, inducement, jawboning, lecture, lobbying, persuasion, preach, preachification,… …

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