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
  • These speeches then feel didactic in a way Shepard’s script never does, their fourth-wall-breaking execution making the play feel disjointed and self-consciously stagy — which is also a problem with the performances.
    Maya Phillips, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The original series found a way to achieve that: Slick, attractive characters delivered crisp legal jargon without coming off overly didactic.
    Emily Longeretta, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Reputational Crises Reputational crises can also be instructive.
    Roman Reznikov, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Here too, the historical parallel with animal cognition is instructive.
    David Chauvet, JSTOR Daily, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • But the moralistic sneer didn’t take long to enter the postgame analysis.
    Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • The story is predictably moralistic and, frankly, more worried about conforming to contemporary mores than accurately representing what was going on in Cuba in the 1950s, dramatically speaking anyway.
    Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025
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“Sermonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sermonic. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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