sermonize
to give exhortation to; lecture.
Origin of sermonize
1- Also especially British, ser·mon·ise .
Other words from sermonize
- ser·mon·iz·er, noun
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use sermonize in a sentence
(Complete CPAC Coverage) A couple of speakers later, Mike Huckabee revved up the crowd with his just-plain-folks sermonizing.
Whether or not the father understood that this brief sermonizing was intended primarily for him, he did not show any resentment.
Story of Chester Lawrence | Nephi AndersonThere never was a time when in all denominations of Christians there was so much attractive sermonizing as to-day.
Around The Tea-Table | T. De Witt TalmageAnd Napoleon, who has done a great deal of religious sermonizing for political reasons, would have persecuted me.
A Street Of Paris And Its Inhabitant | Honore De BalzacI am so sorely tried with my many afflictions, that I cannot compose my mind for sermonizing.
The Witch of Salem | John R. Musick
Or I might publish, to the dismay of every one intimately concerned, a denunciatory sermonizing book.
San Cristbal de la Habana | Joseph Hergesheimer
British Dictionary definitions for sermonize
sermonise
/ (ˈsɜːməˌnaɪz) /
to talk to or address (a person or audience) as if delivering a sermon
Derived forms of sermonize
- sermonizer or sermoniser, noun
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse