SERMON


Meaning of SERMON in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

preached...sermon

The vicar preached a sermon about the prodigal son.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

deliver

The archbishop fled to Canterbury where he proceeded to deliver sermons and issue pamphlets against the crown's infringement of clerical privileges.

Television actor Craig Nelson likes taking ministers to car races to deliver sermons at the track.

Later that month, the Archbishop of Tuam delivered a sermon in which he came out against the mining.

And when the rector took to the pulpit he delivered sermons brimming with moral admonition.

A vicar preached his way into the record books when he delivered a sermon lasting 28 hours and 45 minutes.

give

It can cover anything from giving a church sermon to holding a mass rally.

It is hard to give a sermon , because there is already somebody giving one.

So he decided to give the council a sermon when he blessed its monthly meeting.

According to the legend, David was about to give a sermon in Brefi.

Father gives the bridal sermon over my dead body.

We would alternate between trying to boost them up and giving them sermons .

The iron hand of the Conservative administration's first 5 years gave way to sermons on personal responsibility.

hear

Everything that Margery says can be traced to what she would hear in sermons and readings.

At forty, he heard a sermon by John of Avila and went mad with guilt.

On weekdays, they listened to lectures in local churches, and on market days travelled to hear sermons in nearby towns.

The faithful heard sermons from pundits and talk-show hosts.

Patriot Patrick Henry liked to drop by to hear the recruiting sermons Davies preached, in order to learn oratory.

listen

Developing countries were unwilling to listen to sermons about sustainability from those doing most of the polluting.

I mended the tent-pole bag and listened to another sermon before switching off my torch.

They listened to an impassioned sermon delivered by the Archbishop of Tyre and were moved to take the cross themselves.

preach

Wolsey even has his ministers preach peace sermons in London.

In 1581 he was appointed to preach a sermon at St Paul's Church, London.

FleeceThe cook aboard the Pequod who preaches a sermon to the sharks.

He preached his last sermon at Collin Wood, near the River Ayr, and spent most of his time in prayer.

They had been trained at college to preach Western-style sermons based on abstract thinking arranged in linear form.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Columban left behind a number of sermons and poems.

It excited her that her brother had at last imbued their childhood Sunday sermons with the reality of fighting for change.

It is better than sitting still in one of the pews, waiting for the sermon to be over.

Many of his utterances were, however, sermon commonplaces, to which parallels can be found in other contemporary preaching.

Richard Baxter again pacified the crowd and eventually finished his sermon without further interruption.

The sermons were livelier, for the resident minister Carter was a cultivated man.

The Gospel being read, it was time for the sermon .

What concerned him were his sermons.

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