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noun an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)
noun a moralistic rebuke
originFrom Middle English sermoun, from Anglo-Norman sermun and/or Old French sermon, from Latin sermō, sermōnem, from Proto-Indo-European *sermō, from *ser- (“to bind”) + *-mō.
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