Crossword-Solution: HOMILY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Homily | n. | A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse. |
| Homily | n. | A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HOMILY (5)
You glance aside, you doubtless think My homily a foolish whim, 'Twill soon be ended, eat and drink, The lights are growing dim.
Angelo in Pescheria, and constrained to listen to a homily from a Dominican friar, to whom, unless his zeal have eaten up his good feelings and his good taste, the ceremony must be as painful as to his hearers.
The officiating clergyman delivered a long homily in a dull unimpassioned manner, which failed to awaken his interest.
The fixed idea of despoiling Rostocker, Aronson, Ganz, Rothfoere, Lewis, and Mendel of their last sixpence had been in no wise affected by this entertaining homily.
And the General’s wife was by no means sparing of her consolatory phrases; in fact, it was only after a long homily on the uncertainty of life below that she ventured to approach the subject of her letter of the previous evening.
Quotes with HOMILY (3)
The young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal. He knows it indeed, and, if need were, he could preach a homily on the fragility of life; but he brings it not home to himself, any more than in a hot June we can appropriate to our imagination the freezing days of December.
Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it's what I call the 'momily' - the inspirational and instructive mom-isms that every family has.
A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1942–2024).