Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a sermon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Resembling a sermon.
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- adjective Resembling a
sermon .
Etymologies
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sermon + -ish
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Examples
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I suppose that most of my readers will scarcely be older than I was when I wrote my sermonish little poems under the inspiration of the flowers at my factory work, and perhaps they will be interested in reading a specimen or two from the "Lowell Offering:" --
A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) Lucy Larcom 1858
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