Sunday 30 June 2013

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Homily

hom-i-ly



noun :: A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse.



"After favouring them with some heads of that discourse, he remarked that he considered the subject of the day's homily, ill-chosen; which was the less excusable, he added, when there were so many subjects going about." --Dickens, Charles

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