homiletics

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὁμιλητική (homilētikḗ).

Compare ὅμιλος (hómilos, crowd, throng), ὁμῑλέω (homīléō, to be with, to talk), and ομιλώ (omilṓ, to talk).

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Noun

homiletics (uncountable)

  1. The art of preaching (especially the application of rhetoric in theology).

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