variants or homiletical
as in sermonic
marked by or given to preaching moral values tends to speak in homiletic aphorisms, which can be a little tiresome

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Recent Examples on the Web The preacher’s experience, insights and emotions all come into play when composing the homiletic text. Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 6 July 2023 There’s a word for this style of narrative preaching—homiletic. Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2021 That interpretation of Kipling’s homiletic verse required her to overlook its gender-specific language, which is directed exclusively to boys who want to be men. Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 July 2019 There was no Jesus in that house, no Bible, no devotional materials of any kind, no crucifixes or homiletic asides, nothing. Stephen Metcalf, The New Yorker, 19 May 2017

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“Homiletic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homiletic. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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