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Homily

homily
(homilies) A homily is a speech or piece of writing in which someone complains about the state of something or tells people how they ought to behave. (FORMAL) ...a receptive audience for his homily on moral values. N-COUNT
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   noun  (plural -lies)  Etymology: Middle English omelie, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin homilia, from Late Greek, from Greek, conversation, discourse, from homilein to consort with, address, from homilos crowd, assembly; akin to Greek homos same — more at same  Date: 14th century  1. a usually short sermon  2. a lecture or discourse on or of a moral theme  3. an inspirational catchphrase; also platitude ...
Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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  n. (pl. -ies) 1 a sermon. 2 a tedious moralizing discourse. Derivatives homilist n. Etymology: ME f. OF omelie f. eccl.L homilia f. Gk homilia f. homilos crowd ...
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  1. церк. проповедь; пастырское наставление 2. поучение, наставлене (особ. скучное); нотация; морализирование; наставительная беседа ...
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  noun  1) проповедь  2) поучение, нотация Syn: see speech ...
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  ~ n formal 1 advice about how to behave that is often unwanted 2 literary a speech given as part of a Christian church ceremony ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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  - mid-14c., from O.Fr. omelie, from L. homilia "a homily, sermon," from Gk. homilia "conversation, discourse," used in N.T. Gk. for "sermon," from homilos "a crowd," from homou "together" + ile "troop." Hence homiletic, from Gk. homiletikos "of conversation, affable," from homelein "associate with," from homilos. ...
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