"sermonise" meaning in English

See sermonise in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: sermonise [canonical], sermonises [third-person, singular], sermonised [past], sermonised [past, participle], sermonising [present, participle]
Etymology: * sermon + -ise Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|sermon|ise}} sermon + -ise Head templates: {{verb|sermonis|e}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If you sermonise a person, you give tell them how they should behave so as to be a better person.
    Sense id: simple-sermonise-en-verb--nP9DdCo
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms suffixed with -ise
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