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Sermonize

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To speak in the manner of a sermon; to preach; to propagate one's morality or opinions with speech. intransitive

    "And doe not our Prelates thus, when […] they disgrace and traduce Preaching, calling it in scorne, Sermonizing?"

  2. 2
    speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements wordnet
  3. 3
    To preach a sermon to (somebody); to give (somebody) instruction or admonishment on the basis of one's morality or opinions. transitive

    "He wishes, I suppose, to sermonize me: but I shall not give him an opportunity—"

  4. 4
    To say in the manner of a sermon or lecture. transitive

    "“Children, children! Woe, how you do sin!” Mrs. Kavarsky sermonized. “Come now, obey an older person […]”"

  5. 5
    To inculcate rigid rules. intransitive

    "If you consider my letters in their true light as conveying to you the advice of a Friend, who sincerely wishes you happiness, and desires to promote your pleasures, you will both read and attend them; but, if you consider them in their opposite, and very false light, as the dictates of a morose and sermonizing Father, I am sure they will be not only unattended to, but unread."

Etymology

From sermon + -ize.

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