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Meanings of sermonize in English
Synonyms
Examples for "moralize"
Examples for "moralize"
1
Wilt moralize on the folly of the time,-thevices of the age?
2
One could moralize on this at considerable length, but better not, perhaps.
3
Only with regret can a writer forbear to moralize on this subject.
4
Never criticize, antagonize or moralize-andyour company will be sought by everyone.
5
If we go and moralize it can be tricky and backfire in Afghanistan.
1
What would a historian be who, instead of making researches, would moralise?
2
But it is not the object of this book to moralise.
3
To moralise this story, Virgil is the Apollo who has this dispensing power.
4
It went out of fashion, says Chuang Tzŭ, when people began to moralise.
5
A third person, whose vanity was not concerned, might moralise thus-
1
But to allegorise and sermonise is out of place here.
2
Have you, too, come to preach and sermonise?
3
You used occasionally to sermonise too; I wish you would, in charity, favour me with a sheet full in your own way.
4
People stood side by side for hours, singing hymns and listening to the pastor, Paul Enenche, sermonise on the dangers of plagues.
5
Any man able to sermonise better, or rhapsodise more cheaply, or beat the bush of divinity more energetically, can occupy the pulpit tomorrow.
1
"I'd rather hear you preachify," she said, "than the preacher himself."
2
"Soon as the gals and I get the dishes done, we'll be out to hear Abe preachify."
Usage of sermonize in English
1
I could volubly sermonize; only it should be a young maid to listen.
2
You going to use a lectern and sermonize or do the walkabout talk-show act?
3
But it was impossible to quiet Savéliitch when once he had begun to sermonize.
4
You might sit and sermonize just as well, mightn't you?
5
Heaven knows I have no right to sermonize; but, at least, I never shammed anything.
6
We employ no Dale Carnegie people to sermonize you.
7
As Luke was the host and he is a general favorite, he was asked to sermonize.
8
Re-rack, chalk up, or sermonize about the spiritual virtues of trad climbing to disguise your turpitude.
9
They will dance a good deal, sing a good deal, make love, but sermonize very little.
10
Mrs. Eddy was very wise in not allowing her "readers" or followers to sermonize or explain her writings.
11
You used occasionally to sermonize too; I wish you would, in charity, favour me with a sheet full in your own way.
12
What makes this most ironic is that the US loves to sermonize to the world about the need for open ideas and political debate.
13
Then will the birds trill out upon the branches their songs of joy, and sermonize in lilting tones from the pulpits of the trees.
14
Growing more and more firm in my virtuous rôle, I continued to sermonize her from my chair, enveloping this hypocritical propaganda in sonorous words.
15
I would listen to him sermonize, to find out if his flock had so many vexing questions, and if so, how he answered them.
16
And with that he grew quite paternal and ended by sermonizing.
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Sermonize through the time