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Webster 1913 Edition
Homily
Hom′i-ly
,Noun.
pl.
Homilies
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. [LL.
homilia
, Gr. [GREEK] communion, assembly, converse, sermon, fr. [GREEK] an assembly, fr. [GREEK] same; cf. [GREEK] together, and [GREEK] crowd, cf. [GREEK] to press: cf. F. homélie
. 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
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.”
Webster 1828 Edition
Homily
HOM'ILY
,Noun.
A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; or a plain, familiar discourse on some subject of religion, such as an instructor would deliver to his pupils, or a father to his children.
Definition 2024
homily
homily
English
Noun
homily (plural homilies)
- A sermon, especially concerning a practical matter.
- (Can we date this quote?), Shakespeare, (Please provide the title of the work):
- O most gentle Jupiter! What tedious homily of love have / you wearied your parishioners withal, and never cried 'Have / patience, good people.'
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- A moralizing lecture.
- Byron
- As I have heard my father / Deal out in his long homilies.
- Byron
- A platitude.
Translations
sermon
moralizing lecture
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