Homily

n.	1.	A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse.
	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. - Byron. 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."

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homily - a sermon on a moral or religious topic Synonyms: preachment

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