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sermon

See also: Sermon, and sermón

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Etymology 1

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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.

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Noun

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sermon (plural sermons)

  1. Religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      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.
  2. A lengthy speech of reproval.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English sermonen, from Old French sermoner, from sermon (see above).

Verb

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sermon (third-person singular simple present sermons, present participle sermoning, simple past and past participle sermoned)

  2. (poetic, obsolete) To 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
  3. (poetic, obsolete) To tutor; to lecture.
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English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ser- (bind) (0 c, 25 e)

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French sermon, from Latin sermōnem.

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sermon m (plural sermons)

  1. sermon (religious speech)
  2. sermon (lengthy reproval)

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Anglo-Norman sermun.

Noun

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sermon

  1. Alternative form of sermoun

Etymology 2

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From Old French sermoner.

Verb

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sermon

  1. Alternative form of sermonen

Old French

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin sermō, sermōnem.

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sermon oblique singular, m (oblique plural sermons, nominative singular sermons, nominative plural sermon)

  1. sermon (religious)

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Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish sermón, from Latin sermōnem.

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sermón or sermon (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜇ᜔ᜋᜓᜈ᜔)

  1. sermon (especially by a priest)
  2. moral lecture
    Synonyms: aral, pangaral, pangangaral
  3. (colloquial) long scolding (especially by a parent or superior)

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Further reading

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  • “sermon”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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