homiletical

Example Sentences

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The old-time minister, after he had exhorted the believers at considerable length, used to turn to a personage who for homiletical purposes was known as the Objector.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane

Some other shackled books were homiletical in character.

From Old English Libraries by Savage, Ernest Albert

The function of Hervey's "Meditations in a Flower Garden," or, Flavel's "Husbandry Spiritualized," is mainly homiletical.

From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Drummond, Henry

Some months later, however, at the bottom of the homiletical barrel, he found a few old acquaintances, in threadbare and tattered guise, smiling reproachfully out of the dust of an undeserved oblivion.

From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Cross, Joseph

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