sermonetten.
/səːməˈnɛt/ A short sermon. Also transferred and figurative.
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society > faith > worship > preaching > [noun] > instance of > short
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sermonettino1818
sermuncle1886
1814 H. Hawkins & L. M. (title) Sermonets addressed to those who have not yet acquired..the inclination to apply the power of attention to compositions of a higher kind.
1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 289 Each sermonette was succeeded by a prayer.
1895 S. R. Hole Little Tour Amer. 241 He thrust in a sermonette, an impressive little moral deduction.
1943 E. Gillett Lit. of Eng. xiv. 223 The tendency to allow digressions and sermonettes to swamp the main purpose of the novel.
1975 Publishers 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.
1978 Listener 26 Jan. 110/2 I feel I should be issuing at least a sermonette from the mount.
Derivatives
ˌsermoneˈttino n. a diminutive sermon.
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society > faith > worship > preaching > [noun] > instance of > short
sermonette1814
sermonettino1818
sermuncle1886
1818 Lady Morgan Florence Macarthy II. 17 Sermonettinos or religious Bagatelles.
sermoˈnettist n. a preacher of sermonettes.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun] > of short sermons
sermonettist1873
1873 M. Collins Squire Silchester xxxii Farmer Giles, continued our pretty sermonettist, is asked his opinion on free trade and protection.
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