Sermonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈsɜː.mən/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈsɝ.mən/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)mən
• ハイフネーション: ser‧mon

語源 1

From 中期英語 sermoun, from Anglo-Norman sermun and/or Old French sermon, from Latin sermō, sermōnem, from Proto-Indo-European *sermō, from *ser- (“to bind”) + *-mō.

別の表記

• sarmon (dialectal)

名詞

sermon (plural sermons)

1. Religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.

2. A lengthy speech of reproval.

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 sermonen, from Old French sermoner, from sermon (see above).

動詞

sermon (third-person singular simple present sermons, present participle sermoning, simple past and past participle sermoned) (poetic, obsolete)

1. To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
   • January 23 1583, Edmund Spenser, letter to Walter Raleigh

     To some I know this methode will seem displeasaunt, which had rather have good discipline delivered plainly in way of precepts, or sermoned at large, as they use, then thus clowdily enwrapped in allegorical devises

2. To tutor; to lecture.
   • c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 177:

     Come, sermon me no further.

派生語

参照

• “sermon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

関連する語

アナグラム

• mornes, somner, merons, Menors, nomers, Merson, moners

名詞

sermon

1. alternative form of sermoun

語源 2

From Old French sermoner.

動詞

sermon

1. alternative form of sermonen