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Homiletical   Listen
adjective
Homiletical, Homiletic  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; affable; conversable; companionable. (R.) "His virtues active, chiefly, and homiletical, not those lazy, sullen ones of the cloister."
2.
Of or pertaining to homiletics; hortatory.





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"Homiletical" Quotes from Famous Books



... turned out to be as excessive as the brutalities of Svarfdla or Ljsvetninga Saga; the gentleness of Njal has some affinities with the gentleness of the martyrs. Some few passages have distinctly the homiletic or legendary ...
— Epic and Romance - Essays on Medieval Literature • W. P. Ker
... and comfort of the outer man more important than his spiritual redemption; a student of men and books; an observant traveller, a recent and scholarly resident of the ancient metropolis of the world:[12] a keen interpreter of the movements of history, ancient and modern; endowed as a preacher with homiletic skill and the spiritual art of making life seem large and the Kingdom of God the one supreme reality for man; and all this in spite of the fact that he is far from being Puritan; never showing the marks of an ascetic ...
— Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati • Warren C. Herrick


Words linked to "Homiletical" :   homiletic, homily


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