| 单词 | preachment | 
| 释义 | preachmentn. 1.  Preaching; the delivery of a sermon or exhortation. Now usually depreciative: obtrusive or tiresome preaching; sermonizing. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > 			[noun]		 bodingc1000 preachinga1300 sermoninga1300 predicationa1325 preachmentc1330 prophesyingc1520 pulpitingc1540 doctrine1560 prophesying1574 prophecy1577 desk1581 pulpitry1606 predicancy1627 prophecy1631 sermonizing1635 pulpitizing1651 predicament1765 preachery1828 sermonology1854 parsonizing1864 kerygma1889 society > education > teaching > means of teaching > 			[noun]		 > instructive discourse lorespellc1000 preachmentc1330 preacha1550 sermona1616 protreptic1656 c1330						 (?c1300)						    Reinbrun 		(Auch.)	 in  J. Zupitza Guy of Warwick 		(1891)	 667 (MED)  				Sire, let be þe prechement; Hit is þe meche schame. ?a1400						 (a1338)						    R. Mannyng Chron. 		(Petyt)	  ii. 222 (MED)  				A legate Ottobon þe pape hider sent To mak þe barons on þorgh his prechement. c1450						 (c1405)						    Mum & Sothsegger 		(BL Add. 41666)	 		(1936)	 1104 (MED)  				Alle þe foure ordres agayne þaire fundacion Prouyd hit ofte by prechement..That Mvm shuld be maister. c1500    Melusine 		(1895)	 196  				I take my dysport in your talkyng & prechement. 1602    W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 226  				They rose vp presently in armes at Saint Iohns-towne (excited by Knox his preachment). 1660    H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness  vi. xiv. 255  				How vain a thing is it to make this Man that Angel that preached the Everlasting Gospel, whenas that Angelical Preachment was at least seven or eight hundred years before he lived. 1668    F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue II. xxviii. sig. R4  				I..performed my Preachment and Disputation to the general satisfaction of all. 1701    Refl. on our Common Failings xxi. 241  				All the Company are attentive, his preachment being short. 1821    Ld. Byron Let. 5 July 		(1978)	 VIII. 146  				It..has not a word of ‘cant’ or preachment in it upon any opinions. 1889    D. Hannay Life F. Marryat viii. 125  				It [sc. Masterman Ready] is didactic, and yet there is no preachment. 1909    J. London South of Slot in  Sat. Evening Post 22 May 3/1  				In its preachment of thrift and content it ran Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch a close second. 1980    Dædalus Spring 208  				They had expected..a graphic confirmation of traditional preachment. 1993    Time 		(Atlantic ed.)	 4 Jan. 23/1  				Clinton views successful leadership as a process of persuasion rather than preachment.  2.  As a count noun: a sermon, an exhortation, a disquisition (usually depreciative). Also: a sententious or moralizing observation. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > 			[noun]		 > instance of lorespellc1000 sermona1200 predicationa1325 preachingc1350 collation1417 preachmentc1460 postils1483 preacha1550 exercise1597 sermocination1645 pronea1670 stick1759 c1460						 (?c1400)						    Tale of Beryn 1263  				Is this a sermon or a prechement? 1565    T. Stapleton Fortresse of Faith f. 51v  				To folow the preachments of a few apostat friers and monkes. 1596    W. Warner Albions Eng. 		(rev. ed.)	  ix. liii. 240  				Making tedious Preachments, of no edifying powre. 1660    J. Milton Brief Notes Serm. in  Wks. 		(1738)	 I. 604  				The rest of his Preachment is meer groundless Chat. 1711    W. King  et al.  Vindic. Sacheverell 81  				The Stoical Morosities, and mis-tim'd Preachments of these Lay Baptists. 1741    S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxii. 263  				There were such Preachments against Vanities, and for Self-denials. 1785    F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue  				Scraping, a mode of expressing dislike to a person or sermon, practised at Oxford by the students, in scraping their feet against the ground during the preachment. 1819    Ld. Byron Let. 6 Mar. 		(1976)	 VI. 101  				Don't answer me with any more damned preachments from Hobhouse—about public opinion. 1864    J. H. Newman Apologia App. 9  				This Volume of Sermons then cannot be criticised at all as preachments; they are essays. 1891    T. Anderton Lett. from Country House 120  				A simple homely preachment. 1931    F. L. Allen Only Yesterday xiv. 354  				Ramsay MacDonald came to America with a message of peace and good will strikingly reminiscent of the preachments of Woodrow Wilson. 1966    New Statesman 29 Apr. 608/2  				It was a superb preachment, an oraison funèbre of the first order. 2005    Western Australia 		(Perth)	 		(Nexis)	 24 Sept. 7  				Attempts at finding in it [sc. sport] something of spiritual significance usually yield little more than simple-minded moral preachments or New Age nostrums. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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