Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A preacher or writer of sermons: used chiefly in a depreciatory sense. Also spelled
sermoniser .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who sermonizes.
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- noun A
preacher ; one who deliverssermons
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel
Etymologies
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Examples
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She's also been a sermonizer; a saintly bearer of gifts the cars she famously bestowed on an entire studio audience; and a builder of schools.
The Church of Oprah Joanne Kaufman 2011
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A hatter by trade, Cleveland was also a poet, songwriter, essayist, lecturer, and sermonizer who made public and private pronouncements about religious truth and individual freedom.
'David Ruggles' 2010
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A hatter by trade, Cleveland was also a poet, songwriter, essayist, lecturer, and sermonizer who made public and private pronouncements about religious truth and individual freedom.
'David Ruggles' 2010
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To claim that she was "invoking" the memory of RFK's assassination, or whatever it was the great sermonizer (clowning Keith) said, is absurd.
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A hatter by trade, Cleveland was also a poet, songwriter, essayist, lecturer, and sermonizer who made public and private pronouncements about religious truth and individual freedom.
'David Ruggles' 2010
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It's kind of hard to judge a sermon (and therefore the sermonizer) by a snippet of what was probably a 30 minute exhortation, particularly if one doesn't examine the whole sermon.
Obama: I "Profoundly Disagree" With Pastor Over "God Damn America" Comments 2009
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This is another case in which the Obama campaign engages in something that TPM, and its resident pompous sermonizer Josh Marshal would have reacted to with his highest moral outrage -- had it been perpetrated by the Clinton campaign.
Obama Tries To Dial Down Tensions And Fallout From Racial Dust-Ups 2009
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Yes, in the end, he became an insuferable sermonizer (and he sent me poison pen letters when I said that in People).
Tag the greatest — but not obvious — TV shows « BuzzMachine 2005
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"You have to bomb the Indian businesses, and as for the Jews, you kill them physically," as one sermonizer, calling himself Sheikh al-Faisal, so prettily puts it.
Londonistan Calling Hitchens, Christopher 2007
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And it is genuinely difficult to understand how, in those cases, the sermonizer avoids the realization of what they're doing.
Today's tour around the world of the Bush follower Glenn Greenwald 2006
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