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Preacher   /prˈitʃər/   Listen
noun
Preacher  n.  
1.
One who preaches; one who discourses publicly on religious subjects. "How shall they hear without a preacher?"
2.
One who inculcates anything with earnestness. "No preacher is listened to but Time."
Preacher bird (Zool.), a toucan.





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"Preacher" Quotes from Famous Books



... also unpleasant. It began in vague and uneasy suspicion of something unusual and agitating toward. In consciousness of a hushed and strained attention, very foreign to the customary placid, not to say bovine, indifference of the ordinary country congregation. The preacher's voice was audible enough now, in good truth, though still under insufficient control. It roared, cracked upward, approaching a scream. Sentences trod on one another's heels, so rapid was his delivery; or bumped and jolted so overlaid ...
— Deadham Hard • Lucas Malet
... stand with Pilate, and Gesler, and the Inquisition. How ineffectual their speech and action! and what a void their silence! They are but helpless tools in this great work. It was no human power that gathered them about this preacher. ...
— A Plea for Captain John Brown • Henry David Thoreau
... indistinguishable, the three occupants of the Flag Room caught snatches of the tune Peace loved so well, the Gleaners' Motto Song. Recalling the days when the brown-eyed child had made the little Hill Street parsonage ring with this very melody, the preacher unconsciously ...
— Heart of Gold • Ruth Alberta Brown
... way back through the village, I passed the house of the prediger, or preacher; a very comfortable mansion, which led me to augur well of the state of religion in the village. On inquiry, I was told that for a long time the inhabitants lived in a great state of indifference as to religious matters; it was in vain that their preachers endeavored to arouse ...
— The Crayon Papers • Washington Irving
... easy, careless, graceful. He selected a horse and threw the rein over its head. The preacher was just ...
— The Fighting Edge • William MacLeod Raine


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