Morality
[məˈræləti]
Definition
(noun.) concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct.
Editor: Ned--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) The quality of an action which renders it good; the conformity of an act to the accepted standard of right.
(n.) The doctrines or rules of moral duties, or the duties of men in their social character; ethics.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Intent; meaning; moral.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Morals, ethics, moral philosophy.[2]. Virtue, goodness.
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Examples
- Now sexual morality is pretty clearly defined for the Commission. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I suppose French morality is not of that straight-laced description which is shocked at trifles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We do not look in great cities for our best morality. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Intelligent insight into present forms of associated life is necessary for a character whose morality is more than colorless innocence. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Here, therefore, we feign a new act of the mind, which we call the willing an obligation; and on this we suppose the morality to depend. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Nietzsche repudiates the usual conception of morality, which he calls slave-morality, in favor of a morality of masters. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Casuistry, and an ascetic morality, made up, in most cases, the greater part of the moral philosophy of the schools. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I have perused many of their books, especially those in history and morality. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Oliver was rendered the more anxious to be actively employed, by what he had seen of the stern morality of the old gentleman's character. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Ordinary morality, and hence that of the schoolroom, is likely to be an inconsistent compromise of both views. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He professes morality. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- That's a nice sort of morality. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It's a pity, wife, that you have burdened them with a morality above their condition and prospects. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- This is the second part of our argument; and if it can be made evident, we may conclude, that morality is not an object of reason. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I protest, in the interests of morality, against blame being gratuitously and wantonly attached to the proceedings of the Count. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- His speeches began to turn on platitudes--on the vague idealism and indisputable moralities of the Decalogue and the Sermon on the Mount. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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