Definition of Sermonizes

1. Verb. (third-person singular of sermonize) ¹

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Definition of Sermonizes

1. sermonize [v] - See also: sermonize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sermonizes

sermonic
sermoning
sermonings
sermonise
sermonised
sermoniser
sermonises
sermonish
sermonising
sermonist
sermonists
sermonize
sermonized
sermonizer
sermonizers
sermonizes
sermonizing
sermonizings
sermonlike
sermons
sermorelin
sero-
serocolitis
serocompatible
seroconversion
seroconversions
seroconvert
seroconverted
serocystic
serodiagnoses

Literary usage of Sermonizes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mind (1899)
"When Colonel Ingersoll sermonizes on "Truth," I, too, like the interviewer, would cry "Amen." "By intellectual hospitality," he says, "I mean the right of ..."

2. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1841)
"The monk sermonizes— dully, without doubt; but he instructs you according to the moral standard of his age, and you will be none the worse for the lessons ..."

3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1828)
"... Pupil,' to remark that the writer, notwithstanding bis zeal as t< some points of theological belief, about which he sermonizes a rather too much length, ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1866)
"Indeed he sermonizes to an extent that considerably mars the artistic beauty of the book as a work of fiction. No novel so heavily weighted ever could carry ..."

5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1875)
"Sir F. Palgrave says— ' The monk Ordericus sermonizes occasionally ; dully without doubt, yet we had better not sleep during the sermon ; the proser ..."

6. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1910)
"He sermonizes to shake, that's all. I know the kind of man.' 'Thank heaven, it's not a common species in England!' 'Common enough to be classed. ..."

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