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sermon
sermon is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 8 senses
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- 1noun
A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer.
- 2noun
Specifically, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of religious instruction and grounded on some text or passage of Scripture.
- 3noun
Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
- 4intransitive verb
To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon.
- 5transitive verb
To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
- 6transitive verb
To tutor; to lecture.
- 7noun
a moralistic rebuke
"your preaching is wasted on him"
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- 8noun
an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)
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