Homiletics

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Noun
  1. 1
    The art of preaching (especially the application of rhetoric in theology). uncountable

    "We will consider first what is common to Rhetoric and Homiletics, then what is special to the latter. Rhetoric is the genus, Homiletics the species."

  2. 2
    the art of preaching wordnet
  3. 3
    the branch of theology that deals with sermons and homilies wordnet

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demagogueryelocutioneloquenceforensicslecturingoratory

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"We will consider first what is common to Rhetoric and Homiletics, then what is special to the latter. Rhetoric is the genus, Homiletics the species."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὁμιλητική (homilētikḗ). Compare ὅμιλος (hómilos, “crowd, throng”), ὁμῑλέω (homīléō, “to be with, to talk”), and ομιλώ (omilṓ, “to talk”).

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