sermonize
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sermonize
verb sermonizes · sermonizing · sermonized · sermonise
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To speak in the manner of a sermon; to preach; to propagate one's morality or opinions with speech.
And doe not our Prelates thus, when […] they disgrace and traduce Preaching, calling it in scorne, Sermonizing?
Similar: moralize
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To preach a sermon to (somebody); to give (somebody) instruction or admonishment on the basis of one's morality or opinions.
He wishes, I suppose, to sermonize me: but I shall not give him an opportunity—
Similar: lecture, pontificate, preachify
- To say in the manner of a sermon or lecture. “Children, children! Woe, how you do sin!” Mrs. Kavarsky sermonized. “Come now, obey an older person […]”
- To inculcate rigid rules. 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
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verb ambitransitive
| Español | sermonear |
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