sermonize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To speak in the manner of a sermon; to preach; to propagate one's morality or opinions with speech.
Intransitive verb
verb
To preach a sermon to (somebody); to give (somebody) instruction or admonishment on the basis of one's morality or opinions.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "And doe not our Prelates thus, when […] they disgrace and traduce Preaching, calling it in scorne, Sermonizing?"
- "Don’t be alarmed, I am not going to sermonize—but what is almost as dull, to narrate."
- "“[…] 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.”"
- "[…] she would distrust him if she saw him again before he had achieved all his promises; had journeyed clear out to the Mississippi […] and had become fluent in sermonizing in the Dakota language. No, he must see her next in his glory as a practicing missionary."
- "Sometimes Claude would lead Joseph to the Louvre—a magnificence Joseph had never before entered—and point out the darker paintings and sermonize on them; Claude was an aesthete."
- "He wishes, I suppose, to sermonize me: but I shall not give him an opportunity—"
Etymology
Etymology tree English sermon Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English sermonize From sermon + -ize.