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Definition of Preachiness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preachiness
Literary usage of Preachiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"You have to forgive Honor for a certain preachiness under the spell of danger,
and you have to swallow ..."
2. The Bookman (1911)
"Little Girl Blue, Josephine Scribner Gates's story of the Live Doll that lived
in the woods until she learned to say please, has her preachiness relieved by ..."
3. Theatre Arts by Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit (1921)
"Yet nothing could be farther from preachiness and "uplift" than the peculiarly
contemporary tragedy that Morselli has fashioned from the hint of the ..."
4. Putnam's Monthly (1907)
"saved from preachiness by one great act, the second, which takes place in Trafalgar
Square and is one of the best bits of stage realism I have ever seen. ..."
5. The Literature of the Old Testament by George Foot Moore (1913)
"These additions are often recognizable by their prosaic preachiness or by their
composite imitativeness. By their nature they invited others, enlarging or ..."
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