homiletic
- adjective
- /ˌhɒmɪˈlɛtɪk/
- Formal
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homilético
- The pastor's homiletic approach made the sermon more engaging and relevant to everyday life.
- homiletic text
Examples
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The sermons of Fray Dionisio Vazquez, orator and professor of Scripture at Alcala, are likewise typical of the new homiletic style.
Academic text (1990) -
Each of the church's Seven Deadly Sins was conventionally associated in homiletic literature with a pathological condition of the body. Pride, which was a swelling up, was symbolized by tumors and inflammation.
Academic text (2018) -
Indeed, the pictorial formula suits the homiletic occasion.
Blog text (22) -
"His homiletic text was as definitive: the formation of Christ in the soul was 'the grand object of the gospel plan,' and it was for this reason that Christ was 'incarnated in the world.'
Academic text (2010) -
Fourth, the Bible is a homiletic text and tool—an incentive as well as a rulebook or guide.
Academic text (2006) -
The homiletic prologue is followed by a series of miracle stories that either take place at Hexham or detail miracles worked by the saints of Hexham at another location.
Academic text (2018) -
"Like the Wife of Bath—and like many early modern disputers concerned with marriage and gender—Moulsworth relies on Ecclesiastes as a scriptural and homiletic source and target.
Fiction book (1996) -
Similarly, for Cyril's homiletic purpose, the words of Jesus may be proclaimed in a collection of verses to prove a point rather than having to be analyzed individually at length: "I have read the very words of the Only-begotten, and so you need not pay attention to the words of men" (17.11).
Academic text (1991) -
In a still valuable article on Augustine's preaching, Christine Mohrmann has written: "The most characteristic and, I would dare say, the most essential feature of his homiletic style is the antithetical parallelism that recurs at every moment and that results in a manner of thinking that is altogether his own."
Academic text (2007) -
It does not seem at all far-fetched to speculate that the homiletic model may also have constituted an impetus in Calderon's increasing theorization throughout his career of both auto and allegory.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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6.8
Giving moral advice in a boring, bossy way
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7.5
Speaking seriously to teach people about right and wrong
Relates to giving sermons or religious talks
About telling people the Christian message
Giving advice that urges people to behave morally
Antonyms
How Preachy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Homiletic comes from the word homily, which comes from the old Greek homilia meaning 'conversation'. A homily was originally a friendly talk and later a short church 'sermon', so something homiletic sounds like a sermon or is preachy.