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preaching noun [ ˈpriːtʃɪŋ ]

• the delivery of a sermon or religious address to an assembled group of people, typically in church.
• "large numbers of people would come to hear his preaching"
Similar: religious teaching, instruction, message, sermons, sermonizing, homilies, evangelism, homiletics, pulpitry, kerygma,

preach verb

• deliver a sermon or religious address to an assembled group of people, typically in church.
• "he preached to a large congregation"
Similar: give a sermon, deliver a sermon, sermonize, spread the gospel, evangelize, address, speak, gospelize,
Origin: Middle English: from Old French prechier, from Latin praedicare ‘proclaim’, in ecclesiastical Latin‘preach’, from prae ‘before’ + dicare ‘declare’.


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