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mispreach

mispreach verb: to preach a mistaken or erroneous sermon.

Verb

mispreach (third-person singular simple present mispreaches, present participle mispreaching, simple past and past participle mispreached)

  1. To preach a mistaken or erroneous sermon.
    • Obviously, preaching can mispreach and therefore reinforce common misunderstandings.1987, David G. Buttrick, Homiletic: Moves and Structures, page 29
    • If you major on the three parallel prepositional phrases in v. 16 and spend most of your time explaining and illustrating them, then you will mispreach the focus of this text.2010, Dr. Daniel L. Akin, David L. Allen, Ned Mathews, Text-Driven Preaching: God's Word at the Heart of Every Sermon, page 132

Forms of mispreach

third-person singular presentmispreaches
present participlemispreaching
past participlemispreached
pastmispreached

Origin of mispreach

From mis- + preach.

Questions about mispreach

What does mispreach mean?
Mispreach means to preach a mistaken or erroneous sermon.
What part of speech is mispreach?
Mispreach is a verb.
What is the past tense of mispreach?
The past tense of mispreach is mispreached.

Words near mispreach in the dictionary

  1. mispractices
  2. mispraise
  3. mispraised
  4. mispraises
  5. mispraising
  6. mispreach
  7. mispreached
  8. mispreaches
  9. mispreaching
  10. mispredict
  11. mispredicted

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