Meanings of sermonise in English

But to allegorise and sermonise is out of place here.

Have you, too, come to preach and sermonise?

You used occasionally to sermonise too; I wish you would, in charity, favour me with a sheet full in your own way.

People stood side by side for hours, singing hymns and listening to the pastor, Paul Enenche, sermonise on the dangers of plagues.

Any man able to sermonise better, or rhapsodise more cheaply, or beat the bush of divinity more energetically, can occupy the pulpit tomorrow.

In children's books one often comes across such mothers, sermonising and just.

There was one heart, though, that neither dismissed Joe with gratuitous pity nor sermonised about him.

Dear Eric, don't think that I'm always sermonising.

To avoid the appearance of sermonising as much as possible, I put it on mere grounds of expediency.

Mr. P. is bearing up bravely, but feels the listlessness of which I spoke, and finds sermonising hard work.