sermon
sostantivoverboattestato nei dialoghi
- Regno Unito//ˈsɜː.mən//
- Stati Uniti//ˈsɝ.mən//
Religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter.
sostantivo
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Religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter.
One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
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A lengthy speech of reproval.
Etimologia
From Middle English sermoun, from Anglo-Norman sermun and/or Old French sermon, from Latin sermō, sermōnem, from Proto-Indo-European *sermō, from *ser- (“to bind”) + *-mō. Displaced native Old English wordpredicung, literally word + preaching.
verbo
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obsoletoTo discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
January 23 1583, Edmund Spenser, letter to Walter Raleigh To some I know this methode will seem displeasaunt, which had rather have good discipline delivered plainly in way of precepts, or sermoned at large, as they use, then thus clowdily enwrapped in allegorical devises
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obsoletoTo tutor; to lecture.
Come, sermon me no further.
Etimologia
From Middle English sermonen, from Old French sermoner, from sermon (see above).
Forme
- plurale
- sermons
- passato
- sermoned
- participio passato
- sermoned
- participio presente
- sermoning
- 3ª persona singolare
- sermons
sermon · Religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter.
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