preachment

Example Sentences

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Thus began months of earnest “preachment,” and homebound Yanks responded with enthusiasm, much like their counterparts in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s not that the religious impulse left him; rather, he transferred it to his writing and to his myriad civic activities, all of which had a strong quality of moral preachment.

From The New Yorker

America might have been worse off without such preachments: Calvinist tropes steeled Lincoln in his melancholy determination to assist the divine inexorability of bloody justice.

From Salon

He sounds less like a human than like a sacred scroll, speaking in placid phrases of bodiless, archetypal preachment: “I would advise you kindly, Suleyman, against this course of action.”

From The New Yorker

They make a hollow lie of our preachments to other nations about the war on terror.

From Washington Times