sermonize
pronunciation
How to pronounce sermonize in British English:
UK [ˈsɜ:mənaɪz]
How to pronounce sermonize in American English:
US [ˈsɜrmənaɪz]
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- Verb:
- speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements
Word Origin
- sermonize (v.)
- 1630s, from Medieval Latin sermonizari, from Latin sermo (see sermon). "Chiefly depreciatory" [OED]. Related: Sermonizing.
Example
- 1. Don 't sermonize me , when I go to the front you 're still a pupil .
- 2. Sermonize and example were largest universal used , sensibility training of emotion attitude and values was well used .
- 3. If you sermonize at mates and assume you are the only one with the authority to speak , you won 't go down too well .
- 4. His education of the classics was in fact a political education , whose goal was to create qualified rulers , train political elites , and sermonize the populace , by imparting the ideal political model theory of confucianism and its kernel value system of confucianism .