01 n. A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse.
pl.
Homilies ((#))
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1.
A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse.
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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.
Phrases & compounds
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.”