pulpiteer

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These words came from no Sunday pulpiteer, but from the assistant to the president of the Standard Oil Co. of Ohio.

From Time Magazine Archive

I write sermons in sport, he says; but sermons by a fellow-sinner, not by a dogmatic pulpiteer, not by a censor or a cynic.

From Horace by Tuckwell, William

In their silence they were preaching to him a sermon such as no mortal pulpiteer ever uttered; but his ears were deaf to it.

From The Subterranean Brotherhood by Hawthorne, Julian

And the latter was an indefatigable pulpiteer; one of his University sermons is recorded to have lasted three mortal hours on end.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward

These were the Reverend Charles Honeymans of the period, and their following was like unto the following of that popular pulpiteer.

From Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)