Definitions for preaches

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preaches preach

Spelling: [preech]

IPA: /pritʃ/

Preaches is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 388 anagrams from letters in preaches (aceehprs).

Definitions for preaches

verb (used with object)

1. to proclaim or make known by sermon (the gospel, good tidings, etc.).
2. to deliver (a sermon).
3. to advocate or inculcate (religious or moral truth, right conduct, etc.) in speech or writing.

verb (used without object)

1. to deliver a sermon.
2. to give earnest advice, as on religious or moral subjects or the like.
3. to do this in an obtrusive or tedious way.

Origin of preaches

1175-1225; Middle English prechen Old French pre(ë)chier Late Latin praedicāre to preach (Latin: to assert publicly, proclaim). See predicate

Examples for preaches

We should partner with them to get the message across, have them at the table, and listen rather than preach.

Sex and the City fans were right behind her, ready to preach.

At Christianity Today, Peter Chin claims Christians should preach peace instead of bogging down in the particulars of race.

Herr Pastor has other functions than to preach to the living.

My mother, my father, will preach a very different doctrine.

Each step of the way, Booker has thrived on the philosophy that your actions matter more than what you preach.

On most Sundays doth he preach here in the nave to all sorts of folk.

He continued to preach until he had reached his eighty-third year.

Priests often preach support for the regime to their congregations, many of whom loudly dissent.

And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.