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

Mark how the stock words of the pulpiteer, "transgressor," "worldly lusts," "dreadful," "awful," "perdition" stalk fiercely through the sermon of the youthful saint or sinner!

From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 by Thompson, Slason

It is easy enough to impose on an ignorant congregation, and Dr. Hitchens is probably aware of the lengths to which a reckless pulpiteer may carry his mendacity.

From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)

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

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)