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单词 sermocination
释义

sermocination

English

Etymology

From Latin sermocinatio. See sermon.

Noun

sermocination (countable and uncountable, plural sermocinations)

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sermocination in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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