Thesaurus: homily

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1. n. A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse.
2. n. A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life.
3. n. a sermon on a moral or religious topic
4. 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 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."
5. n:100 n. a sermon on a moral or religious topic