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sermon
has definitions from the field of religion
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[ noun ] (religion) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)
Used in print (W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)A knot of old worshippers , chiefly women , listened weekly to a sermon . He had preached a short sermon , trying to talk man-to-man to the audience , to tell them who he was , what he had done in Macon and Birmingham , and what he proposed to do here . (Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)Naked girls danced in the chancel of the Abbey , the youngest and seemingly the most innocent being chosen to read a sermon filled with veiled depravities . (Evan Esar, Humorous English; a guide to comic ,...)No less ambiguous was the indefinity of a certain clergyman 's sermon . |
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