0 present participle of sermonize --
1 to give a long talk to people, telling them how they should behave in order to be better people: --
My grandmother's all right until she starts sermonizing and then she's unbearable.
Ward evangelized the social gospel, sermonizing on matters of economics and poverty and the potential role of the church in the rectification of the structural failings of society.
But the highlight of the film was portraying how liberating and joyous forgiveness isboth giving it and receiving itwithout putting implausible, sermonizing dialogue into their characters' mouths.
Sadhna got shocked and left the area after sermonizing her.
Confusion over audience means that the introduction anxiously negotiates between providing information and sermonizing.
The point is that, even here, there is a good dose of political sermonizing intermingled with the flattery.
Ridicule followed sermonizing as the favoured method of defining elite norms.
