preachment

Example Sentences

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Members of the group Love Has Won live-streamed their days and nights; they filmed and posted untold hours of preachments and online manifestoes to YouTube and Instagram Live.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2024

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 • Mar. 4, 2019

To cite the most obvious example, the major crisis of his presidential candidacy grew out of his close relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a prominent adherent of liberation theology, with its sometimes militant preachments.

From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2010

Living his preachments in private as well as in politics, he has maintained with Simone de Beauvoir the most famous and durable unmarried marriage of modern times.

From Time Magazine Archive

I became skilled in ignoring these cosmic threats and developed a callousness toward all metaphysical preachments.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright