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homilist

[ hom-uh-list ]

noun

  1. a person who writes or delivers homilies.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of homilist1

First recorded in 1610–20; homil(y) + -ist

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Example Sentences

And yet, by a practised homilist, a good deal could be done with it with which to score off poor human nature.

Colum Cille is the only saint whom the homilist will allow to approach his hero.

His great success was the publication of a magazine for preachers, under the title of The Homilist.

No emperor's name is cited by the homilist; and the date of the revolt seems to have been left wholly to conjecture.

In Hermas there is special affinity to the language and thought of the epistle of James, and in the homilist to those of Paul.

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