sermonic

American  

[ser-mon-ik] / sərˈmɒn ɪk /

Sometimes sermonical

adjective

1. of, relating to, or resembling a sermon.

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Other Word Forms

• sermonically adverb

Etymology

Origin of sermonic

First recorded in 1755–65; sermon + -ic

Example Sentences

James Baldwin’s soaring, sermonic prose; Toni Morrison’s scriptural authority; William Faulkner’s Genesis-like cosmologies of Southern identity and place: All draw heavily on a Christian-inflected aesthetic.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2023

He brought his remarks home with the sermonic delivery of his dream of social and class harmony transcending racial and ethnic lines in America.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2023

But unlike “Selma,” her drama about Martin Luther King, Jr., it can seem awkwardly sermonic, relaying its ideas by way of familiar tropes.

From The New Yorker • May 30, 2019

His stories were wry but almost sermonic in style, and were often told from the viewpoints of both sexes:

From Washington Post • May 15, 2015

Not only seldom, but rarely, did anything come into the Holliday homestead that did not afford the head of the family a text for sermonic instruction, if not, indeed, rational discourse.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney