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  • noun Plural form of pulpiteer.

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Examples

  • He is in fact the Obama-era's O'Reilly: younger, arguably sleeker and shallower, the next generation of corporate shill masquerading as outraged Christian Conservative to capture the pitchfork wielding demo of perpetually angry white guys who never travel abroad and never will, who eschew anything with the word "French" in it and who can only achieve a gelatinous erection when told by their flannelmouthed bully pulpiteers there are Commies, Commies and Commies everywhere.

    Steven Weber: Lonesome Rhodes' Wild Ride 2009

  • They proceeded to thunder at me from the pulpit, and sometimes three or four perspiring pulpiteers were pounding away at me at the same time -- and incidentally making me very popular.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

  • Of the hundreds of Louisiana Baptist pulpiteers there are none stronger than Elder Simon, who was born March 8, 1858, at Youngville, La.

    History of Louisiana Negro Baptists From 1804 to 1914 1915

  • Elder Marks has been and is one of the strongest pulpiteers in the state, being a deep thinker, sound reasoner and a bold advocate of his scriptural beliefs.

    History of Louisiana Negro Baptists From 1804 to 1914 1915

  • Jim and Charity were beautifully suited to the purposes of both sorts; the newspapers that pulpiteered the news and wrote highly moral editorials for sensation's sake; and the pulpiteers who shouted head-lines and yellow journalism from their rostrums, more for the purpose of self-advertisement than for any devotion to Christly principles of sympathy and gentle comprehension.

    We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

  • No Government could for ever wink at such lawless actions, and it was because the pulpiteers, Methuen, Willock, Douglas, and the rest, were again “put at,” after being often suffered to go free, that the final crash came, and the Reformation began in the wrack and ruin of monasteries and churches.

    John Knox and the Reformation Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 1905

  • Northumberland could not then resent the audacities of pulpiteers, because the Protestants were the only party who might stand by him in his approaching effort to crown Lady Jane Grey.

    John Knox and the Reformation Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 1905

  • He is told that if he doesn't perform the impossible -- work a miracle by altering the construction of his own mind -- he will be damned, and is touched up semi-occasionally by the pulpiteers as an emissary of the devil.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

  • I trust that I may speak plainly on this delicate subject without offending the unco 'guid or giving the priorient pulpiteers a pain.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

  • If Arran were a Protestant, he was impatient of the rule of the pulpiteers; and Lennox was working, if not sincerely in Mary's interests, certainly in his own and for those of the Catholic House of Guise.

    A Short History of Scotland Andrew Lang 1878

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