sermocination
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prettygoodwordsermocination - n., a figure of speech in which the speaker immediately answers their own question.
Is this obsolete? Yes, indeed it is. Does it have any other, even more obsolete senses? Yes, in the more obvious meaning of the act of making or writing of sermons, or more briefly sermonizing. Is it from Latin? Indeed: sermonationem, noun of action from the past-participle stem of sermonari, talk/discourse/harangue, from sermo.
---L.
Is this obsolete? Yes, indeed it is. Does it have any other, even more obsolete senses? Yes, in the more obvious meaning of the act of making or writing of sermons, or more briefly sermonizing. Is it from Latin? Indeed: sermonationem, noun of action from the past-participle stem of sermonari, talk/discourse/harangue, from sermo.
---L.
