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[preech]

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verb (used with object)

to proclaim or make known by sermon (the gospel, good tidings, etc.).

to deliver (a sermon).

to advocate or inculcate (religious or moral truth, right conduct, etc.) in speech or writing.

verb (used without object)

to deliver a sermon.

to give earnest advice, as on religious or moral subjects or the like.

to do this in an obtrusive or tedious way.

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Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English prechen < Old French pre(ë)chier < Late Latin praedicāre to preach (Latin: to assert publicly, proclaim). See predicate

Related forms

out·preach, verb (used with object)

un·preached, adjective

Synonyms
5. advocate, profess, pronounce, expound.

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Example Sentences

Preachers traveled the country, setting up tent revival meetings to preach fire and brimstone.

And you needn't preach to me about ownership's interest to make a profit.

In reality, their ministers preach to about a third of the country every.

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Preachers traveled the country, setting up tent revival meetings to preach fire and brimstone.

And you needn't preach to me about ownership's interest to make a profit.

In reality, their ministers preach to about a third of the country every.

Most hospitals preach quality care but when the rubber hits the road they don't provide the resources to deliver the care.

Speed-reading courses preach a form of skimming that doesn't help comprehension or retention.

Colleagues said he rarely wrote out what he would preach and could deliver a mesmerizing sermon spontaneously.

The college's chaplain, however, had invited me to preach in.

Batasuna does not repudiate the terrorism its armed friends practise, but neither does it overtly preach it.

Let preachers preach and let science teachers teach science.

Countless workshops, webinars and blog posts preach about getting creative and thinking outside the box.

But graduates are no longer necessarily supposed to preach from the pulpit.

They preach an arrogant siren song that the current collection of politicians have yet to recognize as being counterproductive.

And few outsiders are in a position to preach to the countries of the east, which have so wrenchingly.

It frustrates me when some of those who preach the walk won't walk it themselves.

Some former players have gone online to preach the evils of gaming themselves.

Brown consistently preach the benefits of the sun's illumination.

Chaplains may freely resign their commissions and preach elsewhere.

And some of the anxiety about mining stocks is merely a pretext to preach the merits of actively managed funds, with higher fees.

Teach your kids to make good choices and practice what you preach.

Friedman, trying to preach hard science to the stereotypical foil-hatted loonies at a sci-fi convention.

Some pseudoclergymen might preach that struggle, disavowal, and war belong to those who seek wordly things.

Many of those who preach against the ills of capitalism have mortgages.

Greenpeace continues to preach wind and solar as output drops to zero.

We try never to preach that science comes from on high and should be taken uncritically.

He cannot preach tolerance, dedication to training or due care for the athletic body, for those are things he notoriously abused.

When they do preach that message, it often falls on deaf ears.

You're not welcomed here because you are only here to preach and this is not a church.

Journalism can continue to preach reverence for informed opinion.

He can still stir the small crowds who on weekends hear him preach in the cavernous auditorium.

It is run by technology purists-proud geeks who preach that computer algorithms, not human editors, will change the world.

If you want even a chance to salvage your credibility, you might start with practicing what you preach.

The new hypertext prophet had difficulty finding a place to preach.

We preach expansiveness for others while contracting into ourselves.

Creationists have all the freedom they need to preach their peculiar view of the world through religious channels.

To preach smaller government even as you expand government by more than any other administration in decades is contemptible.

They preach man, who say that as soon as a coin thrown into the chest jingles, a soul flies out.

It is easy from the city or aborad to preach in favour of the environment.

They should use there technology more, practice what they preach.

It can be done again but people continue to preach that it cannot unless each of the countries come together as one again.

Practise what you preach or for ever hold your peace.

The world judges you by both what you preach and practice.

It's easy to preach to other countries when your rich enough to have choices.

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World English Dictionary

preach (priːtʃ)

—vb
1.	to make known (religious truth) or give religious or moral instruction or exhortation in (sermons)
2.	to advocate (a virtue, action, etc), esp in a moralizing way

[C13: from Old French prechier, from Church Latin praedicāre, from Latin: to proclaim in public; see predicate]

'preachable

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

preach

late O.E. predician, a loan word from Church L., reborrowed 12c. as preachen, from O.Fr. prechier (11c.), from L.L. predicare "to proclaim publicly, announce" (in M.L. "to preach"), from L. præ- "forth" + dicare "to proclaim, to say" (see diction). To preach to the

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converted is recorded from 1867. Preacher (early 13c.) is from O.Fr. preecheor, from L. prædicatorem (nom. prædicator), lit. "proclaimer." Slang short form preach (n.) is recorded from 1968.

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Idioms & Phrases

preach

In addition to the idiom beginning with preach, also see practice what you preach.

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