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Definition of Sermonise
1. Verb. Speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements. "Sam and Sue sermonise"; "This man always sermonizes"
Generic synonyms: Advocate, Preach
Derivative terms: Moralisation, Moralization, Moralizing, Preachification, Sermon, Sermon, Sermoniser, Sermon, Sermon, Sermonizer
Definition of Sermonise
1. Verb. (British) (alternative spelling of sermonize) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sermonise
Literary usage of Sermonise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Local Preachers' Magazine and Christian Family Record: For the Year (1871)
"sermonise, sixty minutes. Study English grammar, sixty minutes. ... Friday: Read
Scripture, and noted remarks, thirty minutes ; sermonise, sixty minutes ..."
2. The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress by Mark Twain (1871)
"They will dance a good deal, sing a good deal, make love, but sermonise very little.
Anybody's and everybody's notion of a well conducted funeral is that ..."
3. The Bookman (1910)
"... to "reminisce," to moralise, sentimentalise, sermonise. He pulls well at our
heart strings with his descriptions of these hard struggles, these frontier ..."
4. The Oxford Reformers by Frederic Seebohm (1896)
"They met as appointed. All were silent. Nobody would begin. At length Erasmus,
in a low tone of voice, began to sermonise ..."
5. The Life of John Henry, Cardinal Newman: Based on His Private Journals and by Wilfrid Philip Ward (1912)
"... to a friend concerning the book of a popular Catholic writer, ' it is a thousand
pities that a clever man like AB should sermonise in the way he does. ..."
6. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1881)
"... thought it necessary to sermonise. If we could light this sermonising up by
a little talking, as we would talk to a neighbour, we would do good work. ..."
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