homiletics

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

homiletics

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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