sermonic

as in homiletical
marked by or given to preaching moral values the sermonic quality of many 19th-century novels written for young women

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Adjective
  • The preacher’s experience, insights and emotions all come into play when composing the homiletic text.
    Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 6 July 2023
  • There’s a word for this style of narrative preaching—homiletic.
    Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2021
Adjective
  • Thankfully, Keller’s scripts aren’t as twee or didactic about this stuff as Lasso and Shrinking creator Bill Lawrence’s tend to be.
    Judy Berman, Time, 4 June 2025
  • Nautilus is bold in its changes to Captain Nemo’s story — new monsters, new villains — but imitative to other genre series in execution, and the vibe is a little didactic.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • The timeline of Isaacman's nomination for NASA administrator is instructive.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2025
  • Here, the experience of Hefei, a Chinese city that has become a manufacturing center for electric vehicles—akin to a twenty-first-century Detroit—might be instructive.
    Damien Ma, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • But Europeans cannot simply revert to a moralistic tendency to tell others what to do.
    Josep Borrell Fontelles, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2025
  • The same moralistic spirit that once defined Minnesota’s politics now fuels passionate polarization.
    David Schultz, New York Daily News, 17 June 2025
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“Sermonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sermonic. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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