Sermoning

now have things been so reformed with a witness, or rather a vengeance, that Sermoning carries all afore it, bears all down to little or nothing.

What need these assiduous pryaers, these frequent sermonings, these importune communicatings?

You needn't tell me, 'cause I know all about it without any sermoning.

Or so said the bishops, whose self-righteous interolerance of any beliefs, save their own, made me doubt the sincerity in all their philanthropic sermonings to others.