Brought into the pulpit by the preacher to advertise his bold sermon and to illustrate his bold points, the simian had to be held in place by the sermonizer's 12-year-old daughter.
In him, the pagan warred with the Puritan, the scandalizer with the sermonizer, and perhaps never more fiercely than in his most durable play, The Country Wife.
Spiv, whore, or shopgirl, Author Lessing knows them all, but she is not a shimmer, a shunner, or a sermonizer.