sermon

[Ser·mon]

A sermon is a speech, usually religious in nature, given by a priest, preacher, rabbi, or other religious leader as part of a service.

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A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermens of Chaucer.

Noun
a moralistic rebuke; "your preaching is wasted on him"

Noun
an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)

n.
A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer.

n.
Specifically, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of religious instruction and grounded on some text or passage of Scripture.

n.
Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense.

v. i.
To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon.

v. t.
To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.

v. t.
To tutor; to lecture.

Sermon

Ser"mon , n. [OE. sermoun, sermun, F. sermon, fr. L. sermo, -onis, a speaking, discourse, probably fr. serer, sertum, to join, connect; hence, a connected speech. See Series.] 1. A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermens of Chaucer. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. Specifically, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of religious instruction and grounded on some text or passage of Scripture.

This our life exempt from public haunts Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones and good in everything.

His preaching much, but more his practice, wrought, A living sermon of the truths he taught.

3. Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense.

Sermon

Ser"mon, v. i. [Cf. OF. sermoner, F. sermonner to lecture one.] To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon. [Obs.] Holinshed.

What needeth it to sermon of it more?

Sermon

Ser"mon, v. t. 1. To discourse to or of, as in a sermon. [Obs.] Spenser. 2. To tutor; to lecture. [Poetic] Shak.

A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermens of Chaucer.

To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon.

To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.

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Usage Examples

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.