Lection vs Lecture - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) The act of reading.
(ecclesiastical) A reading of a religious text; a lesson to be read in church etc.
* 1885', This man [...] came to dwell in our city, and here founded this holy house, and he hath edified us by his litanies and his '''lections of the Koran — Sir Richard Burton, ''The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , Night 13
(senseid) A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture , with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
A berating or scolding.
(obsolete) The act of reading.
(senseid)(ambitransitive) To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.
To preach, to berate, to scold.
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Lecture is a related term of lection.
In obsolete terms the difference between lection and lecture
is that lection is the act of reading while lecture is the act of reading.As a verb lecture is
(to teach) To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.lection
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(en noun)Synonyms
* (a religious reading) lessonlecture
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(wikipedia lecture)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(lectur)Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}