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Harang vs Sermon - What's the difference?

harang | sermon |

As nouns the difference between harang and sermon

is that harang is a tirade or rant, whether spoken or written while sermon is sermon.

As a verb harang

is to give a forceful and lengthy lecture or criticism to someone.

harang

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tirade or rant, whether spoken or written
  • * 1679 , ?, The Life of the Renowned Peter D’Aubu??on, Grand Ma?ter of Rhodes , page 187:
    • He concluded his Harang in a lively and per?wa?ive manner,
  • * 1906 , William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey, The World’s Famous Orations , volume 2, Funk and Wagnalls Company, page 169:
    • , whom he had posed within hearing of his harang .
  • * 1987 , Sir John Finet, Albert Joseph Loomie, Ceremonies of Charles I: the note books of John Finet, 1628-1641 , Fordham University Press, page 156:
  • * {{quote-book
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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To give a forceful and lengthy lecture or criticism to someone
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1915 , year_published=2006 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Emily Calvin Blake , title=Suzanna Stirs the Fire , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage="Have you been listening to Reynolds haranging on his soap box?" }}
  • * {{quote-book
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  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2010 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=John J. Browne Ayes , title=Juan Ponce de Leon His New and Revised Genealogy , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn=9780557466535 , page=513 , passage=It took a lot of effort and haranging in the ensuing weeks that followed but Juan Ponce had the two men arrested and shipped off to Spain to stand trial. }}
  • * {{quote-web
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    sermon

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter.
  • *, chapter=3
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon , he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
  • A lengthy speech of reproval.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (poetic, obsolete) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
    • (Spenser)
  • (poetic, obsolete) To tutor; to lecture.
  • * 1607 , , II. ii. 177:
    • Come, sermon me no further.
    (Webster 1913)

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