"sermoning" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1674, Matthew Scrivener, A Course of Divinity, page 395:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1808, Joseph Hall, Sermons, page 603:",
          "text": "What need these assiduous pryaers, these frequent sermonings, these importune communicatings?",
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          "ref": "1879, Anthony Trollope, John Caldigate:",
          "text": "You needn't tell me, 'cause I know all about it without any sermoning.",
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          "ref": "2011, John P. Galassie ·, When Dark Gods Descend, page 46:",
          "text": "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.",
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