different between homily vs allegory

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English omel?, omel?e, omelye, from Old French omelie and Ecclesiastical Latin homilia, omilia (“homily”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (homilía, “homily; instruction”), from ?????? (hóm?los, “crowd, throng”) + -??? (-í?, “suffix forming abstract feminine nouns”). ?????? is derived from ???? (homós, “common; same”) + ????? (??l?, “crowd”) (from ???? (eíl?, “to aggregate”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h?m?li/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /?h?m?li/
• Hyphenation: hom?i?ly

Noun

homily (plural homilies)

1. (Christianity) A sermon, especially concerning a practical matter.
2. A moralizing lecture.
3. A platitude.

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Etymology 2

Adverb

homily (comparative more homily, superlative most homily)

1. In a homey manner.
   • 1980, Stephen King, Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game

     Rocky handed it [the beer] to Bob, whose demurrals petered out as he held the can's cold actuality in his hand. It bore the smiling face of Lynn Swann. He opened it. Leo farted homily to close the transaction.

References

Further reading

• homily on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Middle English allegorie, from Old French allegorie, from Latin allegoria, from Ancient Greek ????????? (all?goría), from ????? (állos, “other”) + ??????? (agoreú?, “I speak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æl.???o??.i/, /?æl.?????.i/

Noun

allegory (countable and uncountable, plural allegories)

1. (rhetoric) A narrative in which a character, place, or event is used to deliver a broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.
2. A picture, book, or other form of communication using such representation.
3. A symbolic representation which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, usually a moral or political one.
4. (mathematics, category theory) A category that retains some of the structure of the category of binary relations between sets, representing a high-level generalisation of that category.

Derived terms

• allegoric
• allegorical
• allegorically
• allegorist
• allegorize

Related terms

• agora
• agoraphobia
• category

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See also

• metaphor