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Definition of Sermoning
1. n. The act of discoursing; discourse; instruction; preaching.
Definition of Sermoning
1. Noun. (obsolete) The act of discoursing; instruction; preaching. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sermoning
1. sermon [v] - See also: sermon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sermoning
Literary usage of Sermoning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Areopagitica by John Milton, John Wesley Hales (1882)
"2. charge = duty. sermoning. Chaucer has the word in a general sense (Knight's
Tale): ' I trow ther ... litel sermoning To maken you assente to this thing. ..."
2. Areopagitica by John Milton (1894)
"2. charge = duty. sermoning. Chaucer has the word in a general sense (Knight's
Tale): • I trow ther ... litel sermoning To maken you assente to this thing. ..."
3. Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims by Geoffrey Chaucer, Katharine Lee Bates (1914)
"I dare not openly fall out with men To whom I bear a grudge, I can them sting
With bitter tongue in course of sermoning, So that if any one hath done ..."
4. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1903)
"Go now thy wey, I have no lenger To make of this no lenger sermoning. Men seyn
thus, " send the wyse, and sey space 3596 no-thing ; " Thou art so wys, ..."
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