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sermonette|sɜːməˈnɛt|
Also -et.
[f. sermon n. + -ette -et).]
A short sermon. Also transf. and fig.
1814H. & L. M. Hawkins (title) Sermonets addressed to those who have not yet acquired..the inclination to apply the power of attention to compositions of a higher kind. 1848Blackw. Mag. Mar. 289 Each sermonette was succeeded by a prayer. 1895S. R. Hole Tour Amer. 241 He thrust in a sermonette, an impressive little moral deduction. 1943E. Gillett Lit. of Eng. xiv. 223 The tendency to allow digressions and sermonettes to swamp the main purpose of the novel. 1975Publishers Weekly 23 June 72/3 Gavin is sincere and interesting, but too often he digresses into sermonettes that sound like echoes of the National Review. 1978Listener 26 Jan. 110/2, I feel I should be issuing at least a sermonette from the mount.
Hence ˌsermoneˈttino, a diminutive sermon; sermoˈnettist, a preacher of sermonettes.
1818Lady Morgan Flor. Macarthy II. 17 Sermonettinos or religious Bagatelles. 1873M. Collins Squire Silchester xxxii, Farmer Giles, continued our pretty sermonettist, is asked his opinion on free trade and protection. |