homiletics

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὁμιλητική (homilētikḗ).

Compare ὅμιλος (hómilos, “crowd, throng”), ὁμῑλέω (homīléō, “to be with, to talk”), and ομιλώ (omilṓ, “to talk”).

Noun

homiletics (uncountable)

  1. The art of preaching (especially the application of rhetoric in theology).

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