What's the difference between pulpit and pulpitish?

Pulpit


Definition:

  • (n.) An elevated place, or inclosed stage, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching.
  • (n.) The whole body of the clergy; preachers as a class; also, preaching.
  • (n.) A desk, or platform, for an orator or public speaker.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the pulpit, or preaching; as, a pulpit orator; pulpit eloquence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I wanted to make a big ideological point, and I had but one weapon in my arsenal: a pulpit that I could use to denounce the very thing that had given me a voice.
  • (2) "Pulpit poofs" were hounded from the church, playground workers were exposed as "lesbians plotting to pervert nursery tots", celebrities such as Kenny Everett, Russell Harty and Freddie Mercury were hounded as diseased vermin.
  • (3) So everything I do from the pulpit comes out of what I did as a librettist."
  • (4) Here’s how the editorial board of the Dallas Morning News — Exxon’s hometown paper, the morning read of the oil patch— put it in an editorial last week: “With profits to protect, Exxon provided climate-change doubters a bully pulpit they didn’t deserve and gave lawmakers the political cover to delay global action until long after the environmental damage had reached severe levels.
  • (5) "We are disappointed that he hasn't talked or used his bully pulpit.
  • (6) This new pope seems to have genuine concern for the most challenged members of society and better still seems to be prepared to use his pulpit to help them.
  • (7) He used his presidential bully pulpit to help elevate gun control from a fringe issue to a central policy priority for the Democratic party.
  • (8) And at the Globe theatre in central London on Sunday – even as Catholics were being urged from thousands of pulpits across the country to oppose gay marriage – there was no shortage of same-sex couples ready to heed his encouragement.
  • (9) An encyclical raises the prospect of speeches on climate change from the pulpit of more than 17,000 Catholic parishes.
  • (10) It would be disingenuous to use its problems as a bully pulpit for basic income.” He has also highlighted the risk that removing the obligation for those on benefits to look for work might encourage some people to drift into long-term worklessness .
  • (11) From the start, because it had a preaching pulpit but no church, it was associated with dissenters — as Bunhill Fields later became.
  • (12) "If he can use his bully pulpit like this I think the American people are going to get it."
  • (13) The Roman Catholic church provides constancy and many analysts claim Law and Justice will win the election thanks to its support from rural pulpits.
  • (14) "Even in the church, the priest will announce from the pulpit not to shake hands or touch," he says.
  • (15) The packed pink-walled church was attentive and welcoming of his message about El Señor, delivered not in the pulpit, but standing just in front of the first pews.
  • (16) This article deals with a type of pulpit spectacles which have been specially developed for emmetropic presbyopes.
  • (17) A dedicated fanbase absorb the virtues of a movie from the pulpit – Mission Pictures have close ties with ministries worldwide and provide worship packs to accompany releases – and they won't be shy about spreading the word.
  • (18) Parking is near the elegiac ruins of Tintern Abbey, and from there one embarks upon a digestible but heart thumping climb up to the Devil's Pulpit, a rocky outcrop, affording fantastic views, where the evil doer himself supposedly used to preach temptation to the industrious monks scurrying below.
  • (19) "Back then, at a time when there was barbed wire outside and police were not at his side, he stood at this pulpit and dared speak truth to power, truth to evil.
  • (20) I was lucky that my family, although poor, was enlightened enough to know that the hatred preached from the pulpits or espoused in the tabloids, was utter rubbish.

Pulpitish


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the pulpit; like preaching.

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