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sermon
[ sur-muhn ]
noun
- a discourse for the purpose of religious instruction or exhortation, especially one based on a text of Scripture and delivered by a member of the clergy as part of a religious service.
- any serious speech, discourse, or exhortation, especially on a moral issue.
Synonyms: lecture
- a long, tedious speech.
sermon
/ ˈsɜːmən; sɜːˈmɒnɪk /
noun
- an address of religious instruction or exhortation, often based on a passage from the Bible, esp one delivered during a church service
- a written version of such an address
- a serious speech, esp one administering reproof
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Derived Forms
- sermonic, adjective
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Other Words From
- sermon·less adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sermon1
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Example Sentences
A Gaylard Williams Sunday sermon (which lasted for 45 minutes on average) was something to behold.
King says in a sermon a month later at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Selma, Alabama.
In Germany, a prominent Muslim imam gave a sermon asking Allah to kill all of the “Zionist Jews.”
“I agree with what the sermon was and what it was about,” she said.
Your sermon this Sunday morning: Is the power of prayer enough to overcome the German defense?
I felt just the same when I was married myself; but it's nothing to preaching one's first sermon.
The author of the life of St. Francis Xavier, asserts, that "by one sermon he converted ten thousand persons in a desert island."
A clergyman observed in his sermon, that this was unpardonable, as people did it with their eyes open.
Many years ago, while a clergyman on the coast of Cornwall was in the midst of his sermon, the alarm was given, A wreck!
In the churchyard, under a great tree, still standing, John Wesley preached his last open-air sermon.
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