homiletics
Meanings
noun
- The art of preaching (especially the application of rhetoric in theology).
Word forms
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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