sermocination

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English

Etymology

From Latin sermocinatio. See sermon.

Noun

sermocination (countable and uncountable, plural sermocinations)

  1. (obsolete) The making of speeches or sermons; sermonizing.
    • 1514, Fruyte of Redempcyon:
      Every oryson, every tonge, and sermocynacyon.
  2. (rhetoric) A form of prosopopoeia in which one answers one's own question.

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