homiletical

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All Farkas Bethlen's homiletical energy was thrown away in Maurocordato's drawling, indifferent reproduction.

From The Slaves of the Padishah by J?kai, M?r

It is unmethodical and badly digested, homiletical in style, and abounding in biblical quotations.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various

There is a certain level of generality below which a cultivated sense of the proprieties in homiletical discourse will not permit a well-bred clergyman to decline in his discussion of temporal interests.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein

Their productions may be classed under the heads of biblical, controversial, doctrinal, historical, and homiletical.

From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch

Herder’s own homiletical style during this period, as evinced by the sermons preserved to us, betrays no trace of Sterne’s influence.

From Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Hewett-Thayer, Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman)