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- noun Plural form of
pulpit .
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Examples
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Dalembert -- containing much truth and many heresies -- were felt in England, and had given a new impetus to English intellect; indeed, it is not strange, when we come to consider, that while Richardson's works were praised in English pulpits, Voltaire and the French atheists declared that they saw in them an advance towards human perfectibility and self-redemption, of which, if true, Richardson himself was unconscious.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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The presence of a man who had pleaded eloquently in English pulpits for contributions to build Lutheran churches in Georgia, and with that eminent success which Benjamin Franklin has noted in a well-known passage in his autobiography, certainly deserved recognition, even apart from Whitefield's services in awakening life in the Church of
American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod 1894
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To scapegoat them and deprive them of their pulpits is a tragedy for the people they serve and for the church.
Amid abuse scandal, advice from Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson to Pope Benedict Bishop V. Gene Robinson 2010
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Lifelines are suspended from metal supports, called pulpits and stanchions.
Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998
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Lifelines are suspended from metal supports, called pulpits and stanchions.
Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998
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Bosphorus, and their pulpits were the airy chambers of the first
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various
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On the steps of the Throne sat the PRIME MINISTER, whose humility in going no higher will doubtless receive favourable comment in Welsh pulpits.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 1, 1920 Various 1898
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I think the way I'll be using the Bible to make my point is something evangelicals would recognize from evangelical pulpits, which is to say I don't think I'm using godless liberal exegetical methods.
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And. the clergy who then filled her pulpits were a venerable, othodox and pious body.
A review of ecclesiastical establishments in Europe : containing their history ... : and an essay tending to shew both the political and moral necessity of abolishing exclusive establishments, with answers to some principal objections Whatman, James, 1741-1798 1796
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And they show their grandiosity by terming bow platforms "pulpits" and motorized yachts "stink pots."
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