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Henry Ward Beecher

noun

United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887). Synonym: Beecher.

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... SERMONS. Sermons by Henry Ward Beecher, Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. Selected from Published and Unpublished Discourses, and Revised by their Author. With Steel Portrait. Complete in 2 vols., ...

— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker

... friend Moncure D. Conway, who paid us a visit, and in his immediate relations with literary Boston seemed to bring the mountain to Mahomet, I saw no one else more literary than Henry Ward Beecher. He was passing through Venice on his way to those efforts in England in behalf of the Union which had a certain great effect at the time; and in the tiny parlor of our apartment on the Grand Canal, I can still see him sitting athletic, almost pugilistic, ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

Words linked to "Henry Ward Beecher" : man of the cloth, reverend, abolitionist, emancipationist, Beecher, clergyman