Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To speak in the manner of a sermon; to preach; to propagate one's morality or opinions with speech.
2. (transitive) To preach a sermon to (somebody); to give (somebody) instruction or admonishment on the basis of one's morality or opinions.
3. (transitive) To say in the manner of a sermon or lecture.
4. (intransitive) To inculcate rigid rules.

Example Sentences

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

Don’t be alarmed, I am not going to sermonize—but what is almost as dull, to narrate.

“[…] I am perhaps talking rather superfluously; but a man likes to assume superiority over himself, by holding up his bad example and sermonizing on it.”

[…] she would distrust him if she saw him again before he had achieved all his promises; had journeyed clear out to the Mississippi […] and had become fluent in sermonizing in the Dakota language. No, he must see her next in his glory as a practicing missionary.

Sometimes Claude would lead Joseph to the Louvre—a magnificence Joseph had never before entered—and point out the darker paintings and sermonize on them; Claude was an aesthete.

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

“[…] we sermonised her on the presumption of attempting to teach such clever blades as we were, when she was herself so ignorant.”

Why was the choice o’ the man to niche himself Perversely ’neath the tower where Time’s own tongue Thus undertakes to sermonize the world?

Word Forms

• sermonizes
• sermonizing
• sermonized
• sermonise

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When Should You Use Sermonize?

Use sermonize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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