Term: kerygma: preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church
Candidate hypernym: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) → 1
Candidate hypernym: costume: the attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class → 0
Candidate hypernym: unresponsiveness: the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events → 0
Candidate hypernym: cloud-cuckoo-land: an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality → 0
Candidate hypernym: schizophrenia: any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact → 0
Candidate hypernym: ductus arteriosus: a blood vessel in a fetus that bypasses pulmonary circulation by connecting the pulmonary artery directly to the ascending aorta; normally closes at birth → 0
Candidate hypernym: shortleaf pine: large pine of southern United States having short needles in bunches of 2-3 and red-brown bark when mature → 0
Candidate hypernym: handful: a small number or amount → 0
Candidate hypernym: speculum: a medical instrument for dilating a bodily passage or cavity in order to examine the interior → 0
Candidate hypernym: moralizing: indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code → 0
Candidate hypernym: star anise: small tree of China and Vietnam bearing anise-scented star-shaped fruit used in food and medicinally as a carminative → 0