Synonyms for preach

Grammar : Verb

Spell : preech

Phonetic Transcription : pritʃ

Top 10 synonyms for preach

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Définition of preach

Origin : 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).

verb speak publicly about beliefs
verb lecture, moralize

Example sentences :

On most Sundays doth he preach here in the nave to all sorts of folk.
Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge

And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Extract from : « An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism » by Joseph Stump

Herr Pastor has other functions than to preach to the living.
Extract from : « Camps, Quarters and Casual Places » by Archibald Forbes

He continued to preach until he had reached his eighty-third year.
Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier

My mother, my father, will preach a very different doctrine.
Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The Seventh Day Baptist minister went so fur as to preach at him.
Extract from : « The Village Watch-Tower » by (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin

In 1854, he was licensed to preach the Gospel, by the church with which he was connected.
Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin

I have heard you preach patience and courage to your victims.
Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle

But the only violence I preach is the violence of folded arms.
Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole

A sad-looking monk had ascended the pulpit, and was beginning to preach.
Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill

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