Thesaurus results for PREACHMENT

preachment

noun

Definition of preachment

as in exhortation

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Recent Examples of preachment This is why their exhortations and preachments are so commonly met with bemused responses. — Adolph Reed Jr., Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2022 Both figures suggest that the Church’s preachment would be inaccessible to the majority of the English people in both Latin and the vernacular without some sort of visual aid. — John Hirschauer, National Review, 14 Nov. 2019 And the filmmaker—a cold term for such a masterly artist—has portrayed every bit of it with perfect clarity and not the slightest whiff of preachment. — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2018

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Noun

The speech would end with an exhortation for Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, a bill requiring voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship to register, which Mitchell had helped draft.

— Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica, 28 Oct. 2026
Duckworth also faced backlash from critics who argued that her message was, at best, a series of hollow exhortations to simply try harder and, at worst, an insidious form of victim-blaming that ignored structural inequality.

— Meghan O’Gieblyn, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of exhortation

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In his address to the Illinois General Assembly in May, the senator devoted the first half of his speech to immigration.

— John T. Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026
Within a week, a group of 20 to 30 SEIU Local 1000 members burst into a CalHR conference Tuesday morning to interrupt its keynote speech.

— Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 31 Oct. 2026

Definition of speech

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Martin Kulldorff critiques scientific gatekeepers at NIH lecture Should academic journals decide what science should be published?

— Nicholas Florko, STAT, 29 Oct. 2026
The true meaning of death lies in bookmarks and raincoats, not in textbooks and lecture theatres.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of lecture

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The process provides a way for unregistered voters who lack proof of their current address to register and vote after signing an oath of eligibility.

— Mark Vancleave, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
Before the State of the City address, Andreatta wrote on Facebook that she had been contacted about two possible dates for the forum but could not attend because of existing community and family commitments.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 28 Oct. 2026

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