preachments

His preachments were a strange mixture of occult mystery, science, or what passed for science, progressive social reform, intellectual skepticism, and a vaulting imagination.

The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972

At the intervals between the "preachments," the young married and unmarried women promenaded round the tents, and their smiling faces formed a striking contrast to the demure countenances of their more experienced sisters, who, according to their age or temperament, descanted on the folly, or condemned the sinfulness of such conduct.

A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America

They also treated every traveler as a possible object of their "preachments," and spared not to "testify" to him of their peculiar beliefs and "leadings."

Quaker Hill A Sociological Study 1902

And as if she were twenty years older than himself, she obeyed that desire in remonstrating and warning and urging, and the young man took all these "preachments" with a pleased submissive patience.

The Parisians — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

And as if she were twenty years older than himself, she obeyed that desire in remonstrating and warning and urging, and the young man took all these "preachments" with a pleased submissive patience.

The Parisians — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

"preachments," but when Form Four decided to make baby clothes as a

Judy of York Hill Ethel Hume Bennett

"Of course, it had to be a sort of local paper, giving train and station gossip with sage remarks and 'preachments' from the boy's standpoint.

Radio Boys Cronies Samuel Francis Aaron 1899

Adding incitement, presumption, arrogations, inveighments, preachments, etc. to your retorts in order to avoid any more coherent and less presumptuous form of argumentation.

The Volokh Conspiracy » A Sad Victory for Thuggery in Texas 2010

And I was nineteen, and sun-warm Hawaiian in spite of my three-quarters haole blood, and I knew nothing save my girlhood splendours at Kilohana and my Honolulu education at the Royal Chief School, and my grey husband at Nahala with his grey preachments and practices of sobriety and thrift, and those two childless uncles of mine, the one with far, cold vision, the other the broken-hearted, for-ever-dreaming lover of a dead princess.

ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010

Eliot, but he disdained the 1960s counterculture and its "preachments of personal freedom, extreme experience ... and sexual experimentation."

Daniel Bell, influential sociologist, dies at 91 2011