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Definition of Homilies
1. homily [n] - See also: homily
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homilies
Literary usage of Homilies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1400 by John Edwin Wells (1916)
"CHAPTER V homilies AND LEGENDS Some sermons or homilies extant from the Middle
English period are unaffected by legends. There are preserved legends ..."
2. The English Catalogue of Books by Sampson Low, Publishers' Circular, Sampson Low, Son and Marston (1898)
"Ruth : Exposition and Homiletics by James Morison ; homilies by various Authors.
New ed. ... homilies by various PU Authors. 1 Chronicles, Expositions and ..."
3. The Exemplum in the Early Religious and Didactic Literature of England by Joseph Albert Mosher (1911)
"Latin homilies, though some of them have the appearance of original compositions.80 The
above statements lead to the conclusion that the Old English ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The arrangement of the material corresponds on the whole to that of the main body
of the homilies. Barnabas, however, comes to Rome instead of Clement to 3. ..."
5. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes, Henry George Bohn (1865)
"homilies (Title, as above). Newly imprinted and by the Kynges Highness ...
homilies, &c., to which are added the Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical, ..."
6. Specimens of Early English by Richard Morris, Walter William Skeat (1882)
"OLD ENGLISH homilies. BEFORE AD I 2CO. THE two homilies entitled 'In Diebus
Dominicis' and ' Hie dicendum est de Propheta' are part of an ..."
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