homily

[hom·i·ly]

A homily is a sermon or religious speech offering encouragement or moral correction. Isn’t it strange how sometimes, when you're struggling with something, a preacher comes on TV giving a homily on that same problem?! Too bad it happens when you do bad stuff, too.

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A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse.

Noun
a sermon on a moral or religious topic

n.
A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse.

n.
A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life.

Homily

Hom"i*ly , n.; pl. Homilies . [LL. homilia, Gr. communion, assembly, converse, sermon, fr. an assembly, fr. same; cf. together, and crowd, cf. to press: cf. F. hom'82lie. See Same.] 1. A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse. Shak. 2. A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life.

As I have heard my father Deal out in his long homilies.

Book of Homilies. A collection of authorized, printed sermons, to be read by ministers in churches, esp. one issued in the time of Edward VI., and a second, issued in the reign of Elizabeth; -- both books being certified to contain a "godly and wholesome doctrine."

A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse.

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