0 present participle of preach --
1 (especially of a priest or minister in a church) to give a religious speech: --
During the sermon, he preached about the need for forgiveness.
2 to try to persuade other people to believe in a particular belief or follow a particular way of life: --
They preach the abolition of established systems but propose nothing to replace them.
3 to give unwanted advice, especially about moral matters, in a boring way: --
As an architect, you promoted passive design principles, but also practised what you were preaching.
All the preachers were older than fifty, and all had more than ten years of preaching experience.
Throughout her study, the author places female preaching within a broader context of social intellectual and economic change.
English writers on preaching are consistent in what they describe as the preacher's duty.
They were not especially well suited to the needs of parishioners attempting to hear a minister preaching a lengthy sermon.
The book also endeavours to recreate the preaching event itself.
This attitude was compounded by the incredulity of the nationalist press that street preaching insulting to the religious sensibilities of the majority was legal.
The governing idea in most seventeenth-century discussions of preaching styles is rhetorical decorum.
