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Pulpiteer   Listen
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Pulpiteer  n.  One who speaks in a pulpit; a preacher; so called in contempt. "We never can think it sinful that Burns should have been humorous on such a pulpiteer."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Pulpiteer" Quotes from Famous Books



... Doc,' he says, 'meets up with the son an' heir of a pulpiteer that a-way, who ain't pullin' on the moral bit, an' ...
— Faro Nell and Her Friends - Wolfville Stories • Alfred Henry Lewis

... mount which lured him, rogue, To buy strange shares in some Peruvian mine. Now seaward-bound for health they gain'd a coast, All sand and cliff and deep-inrunning cave, At close of day; slept, woke, and went the next, The Sabbath, pious variers from the church, To chapel; where a heated pulpiteer, Not preaching simple Christ to simple men, Announced the coming doom, and fulminated Against the scarlet woman and her creed: For sideways up he swung his arms, and shriek'd 'Thus, thus with violence,' ev'n as if he held The Apocalyptic ...
— Enoch Arden, &c. • Alfred Tennyson



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