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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Something resembling a sermon.
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erinmckean commented on the word sermonoid
That punctuation is important all agree; but how few comprehend the extent of its importance! The writer who neglects punctuation, or mis-punctuates, is liable to be misunderstood--this, according to the popular idea, is the sum of the evils, arising from heedlessness or ignorance. It does not seem to be known that, even where the sense is perfectly clear, a sentence may be deprived of half its force--its spirit--its point--by improper punctuations. For the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.”
(Edgar Allan Poe, "Marginalia." Graham's American Monthly Magazine, February 1848)
June 15, 2011