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Short religious segment on old TV broadcasts
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sermonette
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1814, diminutive from sermon + -ette . Poe used sermonoid (1849); sermuncle (1886) also has been tried. English writers have turned to the Italian double diminutive sermonettino (1818) to describe notably trifling efforts.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sermonette (i.e., a small sermon ) is a generic term for short, locally produced religious messages that were aired by many U.S. television stations during their sign-on and sign-off periods. While some of these segments carried the actual program title ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sermonet \Ser`mon*et"\, n. A short sermon. [Written also sermonette .]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A short sermon.
Usage examples of sermonette.
I had ever heard, yet I did not doubt that his addled sermonette was an incarnation of that very lecture.
She found it strangely disappointing, a colorless round of chanting and silence followed by a flat sermonette by Marc Bennett.
Brother Diego, a former actor and an excellent speaker, gave the sermonette for the night.
Mum, and then Jacob was upset because Ronnie had finished the Bran Flakes and instead of apologizing or offering to go out and get some more from the village shop he was giving Jacob a sermonette on not always being able to have what you want, though the problem had been caused by Ronnie doing precisely that.
First Ryan had given him a sermonette on the wonderful state of matrimony, and then had the gall to say he was falling in love!
Erno had heard such tiresome sermonettes about the old days a hundred times.
Even in the Bible classes he led, his sermonettes and diatribes were of a rather philosophical bent: detached, not personal.