sermoning

plural sermonings

1. countableuncountableThe act of discoursing; instruction; preaching.

   You needn't tell me, 'cause I know all about it without any sermoning.

   1879, Anthony Trollope, John Caldigate

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   now have things been so reformed with a witness, or rather a vengeance, that Sermoning carries all afore it, bears all down to little or nothing.

   1674, Matthew Scrivener, A Course of Divinity, page 395

   What need these assiduous pryaers, these frequent sermonings, these importune communicatings?

   1808, Joseph Hall, Sermons, page 603

   Or so said the bishops, whose self-righteous interolerance of any beliefs, save their own, made me doubt the sincerity in all their philanthropic sermonings to others.

   2011, John P. Galassie ·, When Dark Gods Descend, page 46

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of sermon