Word Finder - preaches

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To give a sermon.

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A learned local Muslim used to preach in the small mosque every Friday.

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To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.

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To advise or recommend earnestly.

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To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching.

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To give advice in an offensive or obtrusive manner.

She added, "Howie preaches that all the time."

Self-control and renunciation are the lessons which he preaches.

The abstractions which it preaches are not products of metaphysical speculation, as in India, but rather the ethical forces which dominate human life.

A certain section of the press, not in the Transvaal only, preaches openly and constantly the doctrine of a republic embracing all South Africa, and supports it by menacing references to the armaments of the Transvaal, its alliance with the Orange Free State, and the active sympathy which, in case of war, it would receive from a section of Her Majesty's subjects.

Marie describes the misery of the poor under the feudal regime, but she preaches resignation rather than revolt.

God preaches the gospel to us through these visible, tangible signs.

And this is what the angel preaches, here's the everlasting gospel.

At the same time, if he preaches morality, he after all teaches the very same idea himself.

It is true that its only conceivable moral is flatly the opposite of that " redemption by love " which Wagner strenuously preaches in a passage at the end which remained unset because he considered it already expressed by the music. Indeed, though Wagner's later treatment of love is perhaps the main source of his present popularity it seldom rises to his loftiest regions except where it is thwarted.

In spite, however, of the words just quoted it cannot be said that Ben Sira preaches a hopeful religion.

According to the Buddhist theory (see Buddhism), a "Buddha" appears from time to time in the world and preaches the true doctrine.

Sometimes his commands are merely presumptuous; sometimes as when, for example, he preaches crusades against Christians for purely secular reasonsthey are the most horrible form of blasphemy.

A quick Google search of "SEO in El Dorado" shows that the company practices what it preaches.

This may be so extended as to include a discourse in favour of pure morality, though, even in that case, the morals are founded on Christian doctrine, and even the sermon which the fox preaches in La Fontaine's Fables is a parody of a Christian discourse.

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Nasr warned the Arabs against their common enemy, "who preaches a religion that does not come from the Envoy of God, and whose chief aim is the extirpation of the Arabs."

The chief priest of the principal mosque of a city, the masfid i jami, is called imam juma, and he, or a representative appointed by him, reads the kljutba, Friday oration, and also preaches.

With one consent Epicureanism preaches that the death of the body is the end of everything for man, and hence the other world has lost all its terrors as well as all its hopes.