preachment
- n a sermon on a moral or religious topic
- With many a pear-shaped preachment, Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins has built a reputation as a civil rights statesman, won favorable mention as a Southern moderate who might do .
- By deed and by preachment, he has stirred in his people a Christian forbearance that nourishes hope and smothers injustice.
- There are passages of standard social preachment in this book, but Wright brings Bigger's situation into the most uncomfortable places of the American racial standoff.