…your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy
<em>Which dictionary definition of parade BEST applies to its use in the sentence below?</em>
A) a pageant
B) a large, public procession
C) an instance of one thing coming after another
D) a constant series of public acts just for show
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Answer:<u>
D) A constants series of public acts just for show.</u></h3>
Explanation: Douglass is lambasting the hypocrisy of organized religion by saying that all their prayers, hymns, sermons, and other acts are nothing but a <em>constant series of public acts for show.
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