verb
sermonize
Sermonize (verb) means to talk the way a preacher does, pushing your own morals or opinions.
verb
1
To talk the way a preacher does, pushing your own morals or opinions.
"Sometimes Claude would lead Joseph to the Louvre—a magnificence Joseph had never before entered—and point out the darker paintings and sermonize on them; Claude was an aesthete."
— Cynthia Ozick, The Cannibal Galaxy (1983)
2
To lecture someone, teaching or telling them off based on your own values.
"He could talk morals to others in the grand manner, and with positive enjoyment, but to be sermonized himself secretly exasperated him because it constrained him and made him self-conscious."
— Arnold Bennett (1914)
3
To deliver something as if giving a sermon or a lecture.
4
To drum strict rules into someone.
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What is the meaning of sermonize?
"sermonize" (verb) means to talk the way a preacher does, pushing your own morals or opinions.
What is another word for sermonize?
Other words for "sermonize" include preachify, moralise, sermonise, moralize.
What are the different meanings of sermonize?
"sermonize" has 3 main meanings: 1. To talk the way a preacher does, pushing your own morals or opinions; 2. To lecture someone, teaching or telling them off based on your own values; 3. To deliver something as if giving a sermon or a lecture.
