preachify
verbEtymology From preach + -ify.
1
To preach didactically; to sermonize.
- "Shut up your sarmons^([sic]), Pitt, when Miss Crawley comes down," said his father; "she has written to say that she won't stand the preachifying."1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC: