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Answer for the clue "Excessive moralizing ", 15 letters:
sententiousness

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sententious \Sen*ten"tious\, a.[L. sentenciosus: cf. F. sentencieux.] Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth. How he apes his sire, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state or condition of being sententious.

Usage examples of sententiousness.

We have remarked before on the tendency of all Senecan dramas to sententiousness and argument, than which nothing could be less poetical.

Unless dissolving into the void with no congruousness is equal to continuing on with sententiousness.