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   sermon

   /ˈsəːmən/

   noun

   • 1. a talk on a religious or moral subject, especially one given during a church service and based on a passage from the Bible: "I preached my first sermon on original sin" Similar homilyaddressspeechtalkdiscourseorationlessonpreachingteachingrare:peroration
   • 2. a long or tedious piece of admonition or reproof; a lecture: informal "he understood that if he said any more he would have to listen to another lengthy sermon" Similar lecturetiradeharanguediatribespeechdisquisitionmonologuedeclamationexhortationreprimandreproachreproofscoldingadmonishmentadmonitionreprovalremonstrationupbraidingcastigationlambastingcriticismcensureinformal:spieltelling-offtalking-torap over the knucklesdressing-downearfulroastingbawling-outblastrowticking offcarpetingrollickingwiggingvulgar slang:bollockingdated:ratingOpposite commendationpat on the back

   Word Origin Middle English (also in the sense ‘speech, discourse’): from Old French, from Latin sermo(n-) ‘discourse, talk’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. sermonic adjective

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