sermonizeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

sermon +‎ -ize

動詞

sermonize (三人称単数 現在形 sermonizes, 現在分詞 sermonizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 sermonized)

1. (intransitive) To speak in the manner of a sermon; to preach; to propagate one's morality or opinions with speech.
   • 1636, Henry Burton, For God, and the King, Amsterdam: J.F. Stam, p. 150,^[1]

     And doe not our Prelates thus, when […] they disgrace and traduce Preaching, calling it in scorne, Sermonizing?

   • 1776, Elizabeth Griffith, The Story of Lady Juliana Harley, London: T. Cadell, Volume 1, Letter 1, p. 2,^[2]

     Don’t be alarmed, I am not going to sermonize—but what is almost as dull, to narrate.

   • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 45,^[3]

     “ […] I am perhaps talking rather superfluously; but a man likes to assume superiority over himself, by holding up his bad example and sermonizing on it.”

   • 1949, Sinclair Lewis, The God-Seeker, New York: Popular Library, Chapter 13, p. 69,^[4]

     […] she would distrust him if she saw him again before he had achieved all his promises; had journeyed clear out to the Mississippi […] and had become fluent in sermonizing in the Dakota language. No, he must see her next in his glory as a practicing missionary.

   • 1983, Cynthia Ozick, The Cannibal Galaxy, New York: Dutton, 1984, p. 12,^[5]

     Sometimes Claude would lead Joseph to the Louvre—a magnificence Joseph had never before entered—and point out the darker paintings and sermonize on them; Claude was an aesthete.

2. (transitive) To preach a sermon to (somebody); to give (somebody) instruction or admonishment on the basis of one's morality or opinions.
   • 1798, Thomas Holcroft, He’s Much to Blame, London: G.G. and J. Robinson, Act IV, Scene 11, pp. 68-69,^[6]

     He wishes, I suppose, to sermonize me: but I shall not give him an opportunity—

   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter 17,^[7]

     “ […] we sermonised her on the presumption of attempting to teach such clever blades as we were, when she was herself so ignorant.”

   • 1869, Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, London: Smith, Elder, Volume 4, Book 10, lines 459-461, p. 21,^[8]

     Why was the choice o’ the man to niche himself

     Perversely ’neath the tower where Time’s own tongue

     Thus undertakes to sermonize the world?

   • 1914, Arnold Bennett, The Price of Love, London: Methuen, Chapter 6, p. 126,^[9]

     He could talk morals to others in the grand manner, and with positive enjoyment, but to be sermonized himself secretly exasperated him because it constrained him and made him self-conscious.

   • 1953, Saul Bellow, chapter 3, in The Adventures of Augie March, New York: Viking Press, OCLC 279587, page 28:

     […] maybe she sermonized us both about love because of her sons.