preaches
Speaks from pulpit
Preaches is the third-person singular of preach.
To preach is to deliver a sermon or religious message: The pastor preaches every Sunday.
Extended to any earnest advocacy or moralizing: She preaches the benefits of meditation.
When someone preaches to the choir, they're arguing to people who already agree.
Preach often carries a negative tone of unwanted lecturing: He's always preaching about diet and exercise.
Clergy's worship address
- pulpitChurch speaking platform
- homilyReligious discourse on scripture
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
- gospelSacred choral tradition
scripture · minister · pastor · clergy · parish · reverend · bishop · chaplain
Art of persuasive language
- eloquencePersuasive verbal grace
- exhortationUrgent persuasive appeal
- discourseFormal communication on subjects
- argumentationSystematic reasoning process
convince · sway · influence · oratory · declamation · diction · cadence · fervor
Study of right conduct
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
- righteousnessMoral correctness or virtue
- principlesFoundational moral beliefs
- moralizePontificate about ethics
conscience · rectitude · piety · temperance · chastity · uprightness · admonish · reprove
sermon
Clergy's worship address
- pulpitChurch speaking platform
- homilyReligious discourse on scripture
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
gospel · scripture · minister · pastor · clergy · parish · reverend · bishop · chaplain · evangelical
rhetoric
Art of persuasive language
- eloquencePersuasive verbal grace
- exhortationUrgent persuasive appeal
- discourseFormal communication on subjects
argumentation · convince · sway · influence · oratory · declamation · diction · cadence · fervor · zeal
ethics
Study of right conduct
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
- righteousnessMoral correctness or virtue
- principlesFoundational moral beliefs
moralize · conscience · rectitude · piety · temperance · chastity · uprightness · admonish · reprove · scold
dogma
Unchallengeable official beliefs
orthodoxy · tenet · gospel · canon · teaching · belief · faith · credo · fundamentalism · scripture
champion
Top competitor, or advocate
endorse · campaign · propagate · proclaim · declare · urge · exhort · lobby · support · uphold
- preach to the convertedPersuade those already agreeing
- preach to the choirAdvocate to supporters already
- preaches to the choirAdvocates to sympathizers
- preached to the choirAdvocated to supporters needlessly
- practice what one preachesBehave consistently with stated beliefs
- practicing what one preachesMatching actions to words