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Sermonize   Listen
verb
Sermonize  v. i.  (past & past part. sermonized; pres. part. sermonizing)  
1.
To compose or write a sermon or sermons; to preach.
2.
To inculcate rigid rules. (R.)





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"Sermonize" Quotes from Famous Books



... dust when it has no firm arm to cling to. I passed it beside you yesterday with a flaunting mind and not a suspicion of a likeness. How foolish I was! I could volubly sermonize; only it should be a young maid to listen. Forgive me ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... preach. You used occasionally to sermonize too; I wish you would, in charity, favour me with a sheet full in your own way. I admire the close of a letter Lord Bolingbroke writes to Dean Swift:—"Adieu dear Swift! with all thy faults I love thee entirely: ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham


Words linked to "Sermonize" :   moralize, sermon, sermonizer, preach, preachify, sermonise


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