“preachify”的英英意思

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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