Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the character of a sermon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Like, or appropriate to, a sermon; grave and didactic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
sermons
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Examples
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King's sermonic thought comes from Jesus' commissioning of the disciples in Matthew 10:16.
Andrew Wilkes: Tough Minds And Tender Hearts: An Open Letter To Young Clergy Andrew Wilkes 2011
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King's sermonic thought comes from Jesus' commissioning of the disciples in Matthew 10:16.
Andrew Wilkes: Tough Minds And Tender Hearts: An Open Letter To Young Clergy Andrew Wilkes 2011
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This variety of perspectives exemplifies the African-American sermonic tradition and is well represented in the capacious anthology "Preaching With Sacred Fire," edited by Martha Simmons and Frank A. Thomas.
Black Voices From the Pulpit Eric J. Sundquist 2010
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Allow me, if you will, to bring a sermonic close to a political development.
Andrew Wilkes: Expanding the Promise: Will the Cradle-to-Career Model Overtake the Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline? Andrew Wilkes 2010
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Allow me, if you will, to bring a sermonic close to a political development.
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Misconduct usually involves bigger fish than Freedom of the Pulpit; sermonic plagiarism, for instance, has brought down several ministers in the past few years.
Freedom of the Pulpit Christine Robinson 2009
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Pulpit Initiative to Tease the IRS iMinister was going to run for president this week, announcing her candidacy in a sermon, but this brilliant sermonic ploy was spoiled by a real life civil disobedience campaign. iMinister is annoyed.
Pulpit Initiative to Tease the IRS Christine Robinson 2008
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And I'm not so sure they're going to buy into the sermonic assertion from the president that he believes in equal rights for all citizens.
July 2006 2006
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National candidates began to adopt an emotional, sermonic style in the 19th century, when evangelical Protestantism was the faith of most Americans.
Archive 2008-03-01 Stephen Retherford 2008
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All the bring-back-values talk in the world (and we seem to have it) is not worth a thing so long as there is this split-screen moral picture: the sermonic and the real.
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