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kauwhau

1. (verb) (-hia,-tia) to preach, lecture.

Ahakoa kei te kauwhau a Rātana kia kotahi te iwi Māori, nō te taenga atu o tana kaiwhakahaere ki te hui a Ngāi Tahu i Tuahiwi kite ana ia kāore i kotahi te whakaaro mō te haina i te kawenata (TTT 1/2/1925:186). / Despite Rātana's preaching that the Māori people be united, when his organiser arrived at the gathering of Ngāi Tahu at Tuahiwi he saw that there was not unity concerning the signing of the covenant.

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Synonyms: kauhau


2. (verb) (-tia) to recite, proclaim.

Ko ēnei kōrero e whai ake nei he mea kauwhau e ngā koeke o Tākitumu i a rātau e ora ana i te aotūroa (JPS 1926:21). / These accounts that follow were recited by the elders of Tākitumu when they were still alive.

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Synonyms: paki, kauhau, tauākī, pānui, tātaku, taki, tapa, whakahua, whakahuahua, whakataki, takitaki


3. (noun) sermon, lecture, address.

Nō te Kirihimete o te tau 1814, ka kauwhau ia i tana kauwhau tuatahi ki a Ngā Puhi i Oihi (TKO 31/8/1919:3). / At Christmas in 1814 he preached his first sermon to Ngā Puhi at Oihi.

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Synonyms: kauhau


4. (noun) line of ancestry.

Ko te kōkā, ko Ngunguruterangi, he mokopuna nā Rerekohu, nō Te Kawakawa nō Wharekahika, nō ngā kauwhau nunui o Ngāti Porou, o Te Whānau-a-Apanui (M 2004:72). / Her mother, Ngunguruterangi, was a granddaughter of Rerekohu of Te Kawakawa and Wharekahika, who belonged to the great lines of ancestry of Ngāti Porou and Te Whānau-a-Apanui.

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Synonyms: tātai, kaha, kauhou, kauhau

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