admonitory talk
1sermon — ► NOUN 1) a talk on a religious or moral subject, especially one given during a church service. 2) informal a long or tedious moralizing or admonitory talk. DERIVATIVES sermonic adjective sermonize (also sermonise) verb. ORIGIN Latin, discourse,… …
2sermonic — sermon ► NOUN 1) a talk on a religious or moral subject, especially one given during a church service. 2) informal a long or tedious moralizing or admonitory talk. DERIVATIVES sermonic adjective sermonize (also sermonise) verb. ORIGIN Latin,… …
3sermonise — sermon ► NOUN 1) a talk on a religious or moral subject, especially one given during a church service. 2) informal a long or tedious moralizing or admonitory talk. DERIVATIVES sermonic adjective sermonize (also sermonise) verb. ORIGIN Latin,… …
4sermonize — sermon ► NOUN 1) a talk on a religious or moral subject, especially one given during a church service. 2) informal a long or tedious moralizing or admonitory talk. DERIVATIVES sermonic adjective sermonize (also sermonise) verb. ORIGIN Latin,… …
5children's literature — Body of written works produced to entertain or instruct young people. The genre encompasses a wide range of works, including acknowledged classics of world literature, picture books and easy to read stories, and fairy tales, lullabies, fables,… …
6Loeb Classical Library — The Loeb Classical Library is a series of books, today published by the Harvard University Press, which presents important works of ancient Greek and Latin Literature in a way designed to make the text accessible to the broadest possible audience …
7humour — /hyooh meuhr/, n., v.t., Chiefly Brit. humor. Usage. See or1. * * * I (Latin; fluid ) In early Western physiological theory, one of the four body fluids thought to determine a person s temperament and features. As hypothesized by Galen, the four… …
8Learned Hand — Infobox Judge name = Learned Hand imagesize = caption = office = Judge of United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit termstart = 1924 termend = 1961 nominator = Calvin Coolidge appointer = predecessor = Julius Marshuetz Mayer birthdate …
9tort — /tawrt/, n. Law. a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another s person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation. [1350 1400; ME: injury,… …
10Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War —   …
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