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What is the noun for pulpit?

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pulpit
  1. A raised platform in a church, usually enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon.
  2. Activity performed from a church pulpit, in other words, preaching, sermons, religious teaching, the preaching profession, preachers collectively or an individual preaching position; by extension: bully pulpit.
  3. A raised desk, lectern, or platform for an orator or public speaker.
  4. (nautical) The railing at the bow of a boat, which sometimes extends past the deck. It is sometimes referred to as bow pulpit. The railing at the stern of the boat is sometimes referred to as as stern pulpit; other texts use the perhaps more appropriate term pushpit.
  5. A bow platform for harpooning.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “Abbot Samson of Bury St Edmunds is said to have preached in the vernacular to his English audience, going so far as to erect a pulpit in the abbey church so that he might be heard clearly.”
      “The pastor confidently stood behind the pulpit, delivering his inspirational sermon to the congregants gathered in the church.”
      “While Nicholson found his calling in the pulpit, he also continued to put his woodworking to work for his congregation.”
pulpitry
  1. (obsolete) The teachings of the pulpit; preaching.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It can be tough when your father, the prime minister, has just indulged in pulpitry about drunken yobs.”
      “Grandstanding in the United Nations and empty pulpitry is not going to alter the logic of recent global developments.”
      “He must inspire, exhort, sermonize, edify, or warn, resort to pulpitry in general.”
pulpiteer
  1. (derogatory) One who speaks in a pulpit; a preacher.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A pulpit has never been so expensive for either the pulpiteer nor his hapless congregation.”
      “America's leading pulpiteer, Henry Ward Beecher, pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational Church in Brooklyn, denounced the strike in two sermons.”
      “Edmund insists that a proper clergyman is not merely a pulpiteer.”
pulpiteers
pulpits
  1. plural of pulpit
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In some pulpits of our church, preaching continues to be irrelevant, disconnected and, yes, even boring.”
      “Furthermore, divorced people are well represented in the churches' pews and pulpits.”
      “He quoted from scripture and preached from the pulpits of black churches in the cities of key battleground states.”
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