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PREACHIFICATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does preachification mean?
• PREACHIFICATION (noun)
The noun PREACHIFICATION has 1 sense:
1. moralization delivered tediously in a preachy manner
Familiarity information: PREACHIFICATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Moralization delivered tediously in a preachy manner
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("preachification" is a kind of...):
moralisation; moralization; moralizing (indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code)
Derivation:
preachify (speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements)
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