preachment

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Think over Mother's preachment, act upon it if it seems good, and God bless you all Meg did think it over, found it good, and acted upon it, though the first attempt was not made exactly as she planned to have it.

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  1. noun The act of preaching.
  2. noun A tiresome or unwelcome moral lecture or discourse; tedious sermonizing.

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  • I gather that Octavia Butler sees her novel as a preachment seeking that fertile ground, as much as it is a science fiction novel. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 02 - August 1994
  • This is by no means a literary accomplishment: Left Behind is stodgily written horror and science fantasy that veers into the dogmatism of a preachment -- which, of course, it is. —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 02 - February 1999
  • Can you bear with such a long answer to your letter, and forbear calling it a 'preachment'? —  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
  • In fact it's more like a preachment, which I normally don't do. —  Alien Plot by Piers Anthony
  • Their diplomacy is a tangled preachment, and texts are their war-cries. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
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  1. from Old French prechement, preschement, preechement, preaching, discourse, from Middle Latin prædicamentum, preaching, discourse, declaration, from Latin prædicare, declare, Late Latin and Middle Latin preach: see preach, and cf. predicament.
 

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