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  • verb Present participle of sermonize.

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Examples

  • No New Critic that I know of ever taught (or as Gilbert and Gubar would put it, "sermonized") that literary works "were and should be ideologically neutral."

    Feminism and Literature: An Exchange Bonaparte, Felicia 1990

  • "Resistance is the only solution against the Zio-American arrogance and tyranny," Muhammad Badie, the Brotherhood's supreme guide, sermonized in October.

    Understanding the Muslim Brotherhood Bret Stephens 2011

  • FDR sermonized about the sacredness of pity and the holiness of giving, and then, just as he got rolling, he came to an abrupt halt, without breathing a word about EPIC's production for use.

    Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Hollywood Hits, FDR Ignores, Upton Sinclair Greg Mitchell 2010

  • FDR sermonized about the sacredness of pity and the holiness of giving, and then, just as he got rolling, he came to an abrupt halt, without breathing a word about EPIC's production for use.

    Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Hollywood Hits, FDR Ignores, Upton Sinclair Greg Mitchell 2010

  • FDR sermonized about the sacredness of pity and the holiness of giving, and then, just as he got rolling, he came to an abrupt halt, without breathing a word about EPIC's production for use.

    Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Hollywood Hits, FDR Ignores, Upton Sinclair Greg Mitchell 2010

  • He sermonized about the folly of the parade of .230 hitters who went to bat with the single thought of driving the ball out of the park.

    Going Home to Glory David Eisenhower 2010

  • Came the outbreak of armed resistance, clergymen not only sermonized for the patriotic cause, they served in committees of correspondence and safety and enlisted in the army.

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • “Nothing affords more Satisfaction in Life or lays a better foundation for hope in Death,” Howell sermonized, “than the Consciousness of having maintained the rights of the poor, the Weak and the Ignorant against the Rapacity, the Violence and the Intrigue of the Rich, the powerful, and the Subtle.”

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • Came the outbreak of armed resistance, clergymen not only sermonized for the patriotic cause, they served in committees of correspondence and safety and enlisted in the army.

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • “Nothing affords more Satisfaction in Life or lays a better foundation for hope in Death,” Howell sermonized, “than the Consciousness of having maintained the rights of the poor, the Weak and the Ignorant against the Rapacity, the Violence and the Intrigue of the Rich, the powerful, and the Subtle.”

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

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