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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
homily
 
SYLLABICATION:hom·i·ly
PRONUNCIATION:  hm-l
NOUN:Inflected forms: pl. hom·i·lies
1. A sermon, especially one intended to edify a congregation on a practical matter and not intended to be a theological discourse. 2. A tedious moralizing lecture or admonition. 3. An inspirational saying or platitude.
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English omelie, from Old French, from Late Latin homlia, from Greek homli, discourse, from homlos, crowd. See sem-1 in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:homi·list —NOUN
 
 
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