sermonizingn.
Delivery or composition of sermons; preaching (literal and figurative).
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society > faith > worship > preaching > [noun]
bodingc1000
preachinga1300
sermoninga1300
predicationa1325
preachmentc1330
prophesyingc1520
pulpitingc1540
doctrine1560
prophesying1574
prophecy1577
desk1581
pulpitry1606
predicancy1627
prophecy1631
sermonizing1635
pulpitizing1651
predicament1765
preachery1828
sermonology1854
parsonizing1864
kerygma1889
society > education > teaching > instilling ideas > [noun] > edification > application to
moralization1447
moralizing1592
improvement1603
sermonizing1796
1635 Bp. F. White Treat. Sabbath-day Ep. Ded. 14 Concerning their owne ecclesiasticall sermonizing.
1761 Bp. Hurd in Warburton's Lett. (1809) 331 The common way of sermonizing is most wretched: neither sense, nor eloquence.
1796 M. Robinson Angelina II. 245 There was something so awful in the old gentleman's sermonizing, that I could not immediately answer him.
1830 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 27 May Any whining or sermonizing would have..confirmed me in my absurdity.
1890 Spectator 13 Sept. Dr. Liddon had early realised that preaching does not come by nature;..that amateur sermonising is no better than amateur acting.
Derivatives
ˈsermonizing adj.
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society > faith > worship > preaching > [adjective]
sanctiloquent1656
sermoning1677
sermonizing1714
1714 B. Mandeville Fable Bees i. 10 Whom d'ye think The Cermonizing Rascal chid? A Glover that sold Lamb for Kid.
1740–87 Lett. of Miss Talbot (1808) 43 You see I am in a sermonizing humour.
1808 E. Sleath Bristol Heiress III. 131 Tired of her sermonizing conversation.
1877 S. J. Owen in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches Introd. p. xxxvii The sermonizing and inquisitorial passage from the Directors' own Despatch.
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