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homiletics

homiletics noun: the art of preaching (especially the application of rhetoric in theology).

Noun

homiletics (uncountable)

  1. The art of preaching (especially the application of rhetoric in theology).
    • We will consider first what is common to Rhetoric and Homiletics, then what is special to the latter. Rhetoric is the genus, Homiletics the species.1854, A. Vinet, Homiletics; or, The Theory of Preaching
    • Thus theology got on its legs, both as a science and as an art, and with it its faithful handmaiden, homiletics.1930, H. L. Mencken, Treatise on the Gods

homiletics meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Indonesian

homiletics in Tamil

செவியறிவு நூலாய்வியல்

homiletics in Bengali

উপদেশ, ধর্মীয় বক্তৃতার শিল্প

homiletics in Indonesian

art of preaching
homiletik, homiletika

Origin of homiletics

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

Questions about homiletics

What does homiletics mean?
Homiletics means the art of preaching (especially the application of rhetoric in theology).
What is homiletics in Tamil?
Homiletics in Tamil is செவியறிவு நூலாய்வியல். See Homiletics meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is homiletics?
Homiletics is a noun.

Words near homiletics in the dictionary

  1. homilete
  2. homiletes
  3. homiletic
  4. homiletical
  5. homiletically
  6. homiletics
  7. homiliaries
  8. homiliary
  9. homilies
  10. homilist
  11. homilists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: homiletics (page history and authors); homiletics (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); homiletics (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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