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- English Word Moral Definition The doctrine or practice of the duties of life; manner of living as regards right and wrong; conduct; behavior; -- usually in the plural.
- English Word Moral Definition The inner meaning or significance of a fable, a narrative, an occurrence, an experience, etc.; the practical lesson which anything is designed or fitted to teach; the doctrine meant to be inculcated by a fiction; a maxim.
- English Word Moral Definition A morality play. See Morality, 5.
- English Word Moral Definition To moralize.
- English Word Morale Definition The moral condition, or the condition in other respects, so far as it is affected by, or dependent upon, moral considerations, such as zeal, spirit, hope, and confidence; mental state, as of a body of men, an army, and the like.
- English Word Moraler Definition A moralizer.
- English Word Moralism Definition A maxim or saying embodying a moral truth.
- English Word Moralist Definition One who moralizes; one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties.
- English Word Moralist Definition One who practices moral duties; a person who lives in conformity with moral rules; one of correct deportment and dealings with his fellow-creatures; -- sometimes used in contradistinction to one whose life is controlled by religious motives.
- English Word Moralities Definition of Morality
- English Word Morality Definition The relation of conformity or nonconformity to the moral standard or rule; quality of an intention, a character, an action, a principle, or a sentiment, when tried by the standard of right.
- English Word Morality Definition The quality of an action which renders it good; the conformity of an act to the accepted standard of right.
- English Word Morality Definition The doctrines or rules of moral duties, or the duties of men in their social character; ethics.
- English Word Morality Definition The practice of the moral duties; rectitude of life; conformity to the standard of right; virtue; as, we often admire the politeness of men whose morality we question.
- English Word Morality Definition A kind of allegorical play, so termed because it consisted of discourses in praise of morality between actors representing such characters as Charity, Faith, Death, Vice, etc. Such plays were occasionally exhibited as late as the reign of Henry VIII.
- English Word Morality Definition Intent; meaning; moral.
- English Word Moralization Definition The act of moralizing; moral reflections or discourse.
- English Word Moralization Definition Explanation in a moral sense.
- English Word Moralize Definition To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from.
- English Word Moralize Definition To furnish with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend a moral to.