preachment
/ˈpriːtʃm(ə)nt
/noun [mass noun]
Dogmatic instruction and exhortation: successful leadership is a process of persuasion rather than preachment...
- The whole preachment of Paul is founded on the conviction that love, not power, is the real basis of human relationships, because it's the real basis of our relationship with God.
- And it was from this popular pulpit that he delivered his 23-year preachment to a faithful congregation of devout and devoted readers.
- It enlightens without preachment, and lets the dramatic or ironic prose merge seamlessly with the musical numbers.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French prechement, from late Latin praedicamentum.
- separate the sheep from the goats
- separate the wheat from the chaff
- separation
- separation anxiety
- separation of powers
- separation order
- separatism
- separatist
- separative
- separator
- separatory
- sepd.
- Sepedi
- Sephadex
- Sephardi
- Sephardic
- Sepharose
- sephira
- sepia
- pedologist
- pedology
- pedomancy
- pedometer
- pedometric
- pedometry