Usually means: Preach moral content in speech.
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  1. sermonize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sermonize: Merriam-Webster
  3. sermonize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sermonize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sermonize: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sermonize: Vocabulary.com
  7. sermonize: Wordnik
  8. sermonize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sermonize: Wiktionary
  10. sermonize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sermonize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sermonize: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sermonize: Dictionary.com
  14. Sermonize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. sermonize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. sermonize: Rhymezone
  17. Sermonize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. sermonize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. sermonize: FreeDictionary.org
  20. sermonize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. sermonize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sermonize: Legal dictionary

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verb:  (intransitive) To speak in the manner of a sermon; to preach; to propagate one's morality or opinions with speech.
verb:  (transitive) To preach a sermon to (somebody); to give (somebody) instruction or admonishment on the basis of one's morality or opinions.
verb:  (transitive) To say in the manner of a sermon or lecture.
verb:  (intransitive) To inculcate rigid rules.

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