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sermoned

sermoned is the simple past and past participle of sermon.

Meaning of sermon

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete, poetic) 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
  2. (obsolete, poetic) To tutor; to lecture.
    • Come, sermon me no further.c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

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Questions about sermoned

What is sermoned the simple past and past participle of?
Sermoned is the simple past and past participle of sermon.

Words near sermoned in the dictionary

  1. sermon
  2. Sermon on the Mount
  3. sermon-proof
  4. sermonaries
  5. sermonary
  6. sermoned
  7. sermoneer
  8. sermoneers
  9. sermoner
  10. sermoners
  11. sermonesque

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