Sermonize
['sɜːmənaɪz] or ['sɝmənaɪz]
Definition
(verb.) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements; 'This man always sermonizes'.
Typist: Ursula--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To compose or write a sermon or sermons; to preach.
(v. i.) To inculcate rigid rules.
(v. t.) To preach or discourse to; to affect or influence by means of a sermon or of sermons.
Edited by Andrea
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Preach.
Editor: Rhoda
Examples
- They will dance a good deal, sing a good deal, make love, but sermonize very little. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And, besides, I see no right you have to sermonize me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Somebody, I argued, might as well sermonize Madame about her young physician: and what good would that do? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Then the story has grown into this lie out of some sermonizing words he may have let fall about me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- 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. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I believe Madame sermonized herself. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Typed by Carla