Moral
['mɒr(ə)l] or ['mɔrəl]
Definition
(noun.) the significance of a story or event; 'the moral of the story is to love thy neighbor'.
(adj.) concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles; 'moral sense'; 'a moral scrutiny'; 'a moral lesson'; 'a moral quandary'; 'moral convictions'; 'a moral life' .
(adj.) psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect; 'a moral victory'; 'moral support' .
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Definition
(a.) Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong, so far as they are properly subject to rules.
(a.) Conformed to accepted rules of right; acting in conformity with such rules; virtuous; just; as, a moral man. Used sometimes in distinction from religious; as, a moral rather than a religious life.
(a.) Capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by a sense of right; subject to the law of duty.
(a.) Acting upon or through one's moral nature or sense of right, or suited to act in such a manner; as, a moral arguments; moral considerations. Sometimes opposed to material and physical; as, moral pressure or support.
(a.) Supported by reason or probability; practically sufficient; -- opposed to legal or demonstrable; as, a moral evidence; a moral certainty.
(a.) Serving to teach or convey a moral; as, a moral lesson; moral tales.
(n.) The doctrine or practice of the duties of life; manner of living as regards right and wrong; conduct; behavior; -- usually in the plural.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A morality play. See Morality, 5.
(v. i.) To moralize.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Ethical, of morals, of ethics, regarding duties, touching obligations.[2]. Accountable, bound by duty, bound to do what is right.[3]. Virtuous, good, just, upright, honest, of good principles.[4]. Probable, not demonstrative.
n. [1]. Practical application (of a fable, &c.).[2]. Practical lesson (of any event).
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Mental, ideal, intellectual, spiritual, ethical, probable, inferential,presumptive, analogous, virtuous, well-conducted
ANT:Physical, material, practical, demonstrative, mathematical, immoral, vicious
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Definition
adj. of or belonging to the manners or conduct of men: conformed to right ethical virtuous: capable of knowing right and wrong: subject to the moral law: instructing with regard to morals: supported by evidence of reason or probability—opp. to Demonstrative: belonging to the mind or to the will: (Shak.) moralising.—n. in pl. manners: the doctrine or practice of the duties of life: moral philosophy or ethics: conduct esp. sexual conduct: in sing. the practical lesson given by anything: an emblem or allegory: (slang) a certainty an exact counterpart.—v.i. to moralise.—ns. Mor′aler (Shak.) a moraliser; Moralisā′tion act of moralising explanation in a moral sense.—v.t. Mor′alise to apply to a moral purpose: to explain in a moral sense.—v.i. to speak or write on moral subjects: to make moral reflections.—ns. Mor′aliser; Mor′alism a moral maxim; moral counsel: morality as distinct from religion; Mor′alist one who teaches morals or who practises moral duties: a merely moral as distinguished from a religious man: one who prides himself on his morality.—adj. Moralist′ic.—n. Moral′ity quality of being moral: that in an action which renders it right or wrong: the practice of moral duties apart from religion: virtue: the doctrine which treats of actions as being right or wrong: ethics: a kind of drama which grew out of mysteries and miracle-plays and continued in fashion till Elizabeth's time in which allegorical representations of the virtues and vices were introduced as dramatis person.—adv. Mor′ally in a moral manner: uprightly: to all intents and purposes practically.—Moral agent one who acts under a knowledge of right and wrong; Moral certainty a likelihood so great as to be safely acted on although not capable of being certainly proved; Moral defeat (see Moral victory); Moral faculty (see Moral sense); Moral law a law or rules for life and conduct founded on what is right and wrong: the law of conscience; Moral philosophy the science which treats of the qualities of actions as being right or wrong and the duty of mankind with regard to such actions; Moral sense that power of the mind which knows or judges actions to be right or wrong and determines conduct accordingly; Moral theology ethics treated with reference to a divine source; Moral victory a defeat in appearance but in some important sense a real victory.
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Examples
- But how about the foresight and the moral retrogression? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- But the trouble with them is that the psychology is weak and uninformed, distorted by moral enthusiasms, and put out without any particular reference to the task of statesmanship. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Whether truth--be it religious or moral truth--speak eloquently and in well-chosen language or not, its voice should be heard with reverence. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I have little moral courage; the want of it is my bane. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But, Sir, I thought every story should have some sort of a moral, so I took care to have a few of my sinners repent. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The moral of the thing was serious, according to my daughter. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- A salutary moral depression would be the effect. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The moral oppression had produced a physical craving for air, and he strode on, opening his lungs to the reverberating coldness of the night. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- And so they produced a moral collapse by not assenting to it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Others, who expected to make no great figure, disliked this kind of moral lantern turned on them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Man must learn to know himself; he must see his station among created things; he must become a moral agent. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Religious intolerance and moral accusations are the natural weapons of the envious against the leaders of men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Your moral clap-traps have an excellent effect in England--keep them for yourself and your own countrymen, if you please. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- An easy people to govern, in the Parliament and in the Kitchen--that's the moral of it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- On the one hand, there is an identification of the moral with the rational. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Reason is wholly inactive, and can never be the source of so active a principle as conscience, or a sense of morals. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Such is the Sophist's wisdom, and such is the condition of those who make public opinion the test of truth, whether in art or in morals. Plato. The Republic.
- Something of the same kind was afterwards attempted in morals. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- If Fred Bentinck meets a woman of my loose morals in this dress, _il croira que c'est la belle Madeleine! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I utterly distrust his morals, and it is my duty to hinder to the utmost the fulfilment of his designs. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Once clear of the grounds, the duties of hospitality (in Betteredge's code of morals) ceased, and the privileges of curiosity began. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- His chief treatise, entitled the Republic, is at once a treatise on morals, on social organization, and on the metaphysics and science of nature. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Afterwards a sentiment of morals concurs with interest, and becomes a new obligation upon mankind. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Morals don't sell nowadays. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- As a matter of fact, morals are as broad as acts which concern our relationships with others. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Paul that morning handled them: he spared nothing--neither their minds, morals, mannersnor personal appearance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Assume that you and he are alike, and you can found morals on humanity. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The general opinion of mankind has some authority in all cases; but in this of morals it is perfectly infallible. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Yes, my lord, continued Quintin, I sall troble yow to make de moste strict inquiry about de yong voman; and partiguler, vor her morals. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- If it is, then the taboo enforced by a Morals Police is, perhaps, as good a way as any of gaining a fictitious sense of activity. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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