Synonyms for pulpit
ˈpʊl pɪt, ˈpʌl-pul·pit

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1. dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, ambo, stump, soapboxnoun

   a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it

   Synonyms:
   ambo, rostrum, snout, stump, podium, dais, soapbox, tree stump

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1. pulpitnoun

   Synonyms:
   desk, sacred desk

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1. List of paraphrases for "pulpit":

   chair, podium, forum, rostrum, platform

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How to use pulpit in a sentence?

1. Terri Sewell:

   He has earned the right to be in this pulpit and to address you now.

2. Charles Eliot Norton:

   The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.

3. Rob McCoy:

   Every single person in this room has been inculcated and trained to think that any time a pastor opens his mouth to talk about politics from the pulpit, somehow that’s wrong, you’ve been taught incorrectly. There should be no other place that you should speak of it but from the pulpit.

4. Dennis Ross:

   We've got to focus on bringing civility and respect back, and as much as I would like to do it from the pulpit of the Congress, I would be tainted with having an agenda that would suit a particular group, this way I can do it in a fashion that I think reinstates the fundamentals of our democracy that require some respect and some decorum.

5. Saki:

   He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.