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Definition of Sermonizes
1. sermonize [v] - See also: sermonize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sermonizes
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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