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Bosom Sermons

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Written sermons, not extemporary ones or from notes. Does it not mean committed to memory or learnt by heart?

“The preaching from ‘bosom sermons,ʹ or from writing, being considered a lifeless practice before the Reformation.”—Blunt: Reformation in England, p. 179.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Borowe
Borr
Borrow
Borrowed days of February (The)
Borrowed days of March
Bortell
Bos[ei] in lingua
Bosh
Bosky
Bosom Friend (A)
Bosom Sermons
Bosphorus=Ox ford
Boss
Bossum
Bostal
Botanomancy
Botany
Botch
Bother
Bothie System
Botley Assizes