| 单词 |
preachify |
| 释义 |
preachify, v. colloq.|ˈpriːtʃɪfaɪ|
[f. preach v. + -ify: cf. speechify.]
intr. To preach in a factitious or a tedious way; to make a ‘preachment’. Often merely contemptuous for preach. Hence ˈpreachifying vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also ˌpreachifiˈcation.
1775S. J. Pratt Liberal Opin. liv. (1783) II. 147 He wrote obstinately on,..preachifying, till he piously picked my pocket of above a hundred and fifty guineas. 1828tr. Manzoni's Betrothed Lovers I. vi. 180 When in his preachifying, he fixes his eyes on me, I am afraid that he will shoot out before everybody—those twenty five lira! 1843Lockhart in Croker Papers (1884) 6 Dec., Alison deserves all anybody can say..of his coxcombical pomposity and preachification. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair x, She has written to say that she won't stand the preachifying. 1869Miss Mulock Woman's Kingd. II. 137, I am going to preachify in earnest; and..it is about a very serious thing. 1916W. Owen Let. 13 July (1967) 399 His dogmatic, pig-headed, preachifying, self-sufficient manners and domineering tone. 1978J. Anderson Angel of Death vii. 70 I'm not a great admirer of..paternalistic, preachifying Christianity. |
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