Speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements.
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.
6 In children's books one often comes across such mothers, sermonising and just.
7 There was one heart, though, that neither dismissed Joe with gratuitous pity nor sermonised about him.
8 Dear Eric, don't think that I'm always sermonising .
9 To avoid the appearance of sermonising as much as possible, I put it on mere grounds of expediency.
10 Mr. P. is bearing up bravely, but feels the listlessness of which I spoke, and finds sermonising hard work.
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