English Explanatory Dictionary

sermocination

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The making of speeches or sermons; sermonizing.
  2. A form of prosopopoeia in which one answers one's own question.

Word forms

sermocination sermocinations

Etymology

From Latin sermocinatio. See sermon.

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