Word Finder - moral

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(of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson.

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(chiefly in the plural) Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.

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a candidate with strong morals

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A morality play.

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A moral certainty.

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An exact counterpart.

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To moralize.

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Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.

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moral judgments;  a moral poem

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Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.

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a moral obligation

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Capable of right and wrong action.

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a moral agent

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Probable but not proved.

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a moral certainty

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Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will.

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a moral victory;  moral support

Our efforts sometimes produced moral dilemmas.

Call it moral support.

There was a moral behind it, one that terrified her.

Their actions showed moral ambiguity.

There was no way to defend her moral objections without seeding doubt in his mind.

Drinking became more and more a physical and also a moral necessity.

He had no faith in her self-control; her moral commitment.

In spite of her strict moral standards on premarital relationships, Carmen was obviously stirred deeply by desire.

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

She was a master at building her own moral roadblocks, placing her goals frustratingly out of reach.

Petitions continued to flow in to the emperor's cabinet, praying for a national representation, from the zemstvos, from the nobles and from the professional classes, and their moral was enforced by general agitation, by partial strikes, and by outrages which culminated at Moscow in the murder of the Grand-duke Sergius (February 4th, 1 9 05).

It was to prevent any falling off from this high moral standard till it should become part of his being that his father kept the boy so closely with himself.

Now he stood forth to the world as an unscrupulous aggressor; moral force, previously marshalled on the side of France, now began to pass to the side of his opponents.

Vice and disease, which cast such a sombre moral hue over the world, seemed to have hardly any existence for him.

Watching his retreating back, it occurred to her once again that she might lose him over moral issues.

Left to itself, the native population lost physical and moral vigour.

Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a first-class both in the mathematical tripos and in the 2nd part of the moral sciences tripos, he remained at Cambridge as a lecturer, and became well known as a student of mathematical philosophy and a leading exponent of the views of the newer school of Realists.

Of this tradition the Naboth incident in the time of Ahab furnishes a clear example which brings to light the contrast between the Tyrian Baal-cult, which was scarcely ethical, and of which Jezebel and Ahab were devotees, and the moral requirements of the religion of Yahweh of which Elijah was the prophet and impassioned exponent.

But the prevalence of the worship of " other gods " and of graven images in these " high places," and the moral debasement of life which accompanied these cults, made it clear that the " high places " were sources of grave injury to Israel's social life.

See John Clarke, Examination of the Notion of Moral Good and Evil advanced in a late book entitled The Religion of Nature Delineated (London, 1725); Drechsler, Ober Wollaston's Moral-Philosophie (Erlangen, 1802); Sir Leslie Stephen's History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1876), ch.

In 1851 he was made professor of moral philosophy at St Edmund's College, Ware, and was advanced to the chair of dogmatic theology in 1852.

Little more than half a century after the overthrow of the Jewish nationality, the Mishnah was practically completed, and by this code of rabbinic law - and law is here a term which includes the social, moral and religious as well as the ritual and legal phases of human activity - the Jewish people were organized into a community, living more or less autonomously under the Sanhedrin or Synedrium and its officials.

No community living in full accordance with that code could fail to reach a high moral and intellectual level.

The insurgents, who received moral support from Dr Sphakianakis, proclaimed the union of the island with Greece (March 1905), and their example was speedily followed by the assembly at Canea.

So, again, when Recejac defines mysticism as " the tendency to draw near to the Absolute in moral union.

In this year, Reid succeeded Adam Smith as professor of moral philosophy in the university of Glasgow.

Yet it may be asserted that until the more durable and more reputable connexion with Mme de Nehra these love episodes were the most disgraceful blemishes in a life otherwise of a far higher moral character than has been commonly supposed.

This promise he brilliantly fulfilled by routing the forces of the Argive confederacy at the battle of Mantinea (418), the moral effect of which was out of all proportion to the losses inflicted on the enemy.

Kant, though pessimistic as regards the actual man, is optimistic regarding his moral capacity.

There are no limits to the good results of his introduction of a true method of reasoning into the moral and political sciences.

Its nearness to Washington, the material and manufacturing resources concentrated in it, and the moral importance attached to its possession by both sides, caused it to be regarded as the centre of gravity of the military operations in the east to which the greatest leaders and the finest armies were devoted from 1861 to 1865.

About this work he said little in the Autobiography, probably because his main concern there was to expound the influences that effected his moral and mental development.

Mill remarks that the uncertainty hanging over the very elements of moral and social philosophy proves that the means of arriving at the truth in those sciences are not yet properly understood.

By 1831 the period of depression had passed; Mill's enthusiasm for humanity had been thoroughly reawakened, and had taken the definite shape of an aspiration to supply an unimpeachable method of search for conclusions in moral and social science.

Be this as it may, enthusiastic as he was for a new logic that might give certainty to moral and social conclusions, Mill was no less resolute that the new logic should stand in no antagonism to the old.

He distinguishes a threefold sense of scripture, a grammaticohistorical, a moral and a pneumatic - the last being the proper and highest sense.

The pupils at Brienne, far from receiving a military education, were grounded in ordinary subjects, and in no very efficient manner, by brethren of the order, or society, of Minims. The moral tone of the school was low; and Napoleon afterwards spoke with contempt of the training of the "monks" and the manner of life of the scholars.

Still more important, perhaps, was the change in moral which the Spanish rising brought about.

Hence arise various mistaken beliefs, such as the belief in revelation which not only injures the moral As feudalism passed from its age of supremacy into its age of decline, its customs tended to crystallize into fixed forms.

His life, henceforth, was devoted to teaching (mainly philosophical) in the university - first as college tutor, afterwards, from 1878 until his death (at Oxford on the 26th of March 1882) as Whyte's Professor of Moral Philosophy.

In the light of this knowledge we shall be able to formulate the moral code, which, in turn, will serve as a criterion of actual civic and social institutions.

The faculty employed in this further investigation is no "separate moral faculty," but that same reason which is the source of all our knowledge - ethical and other.

As the result of this analysis, combined with an investigation into the surroundings man lives in, a "content" - a moral code - becomes gradually evolved.

He was remarkable for both his moral and physical courage, and in politics was notable for his independence of party.

The penitentiary system, according to which the priest enforced a code of moral law in the confessional by the sanction of penance - penance which must be performed as a condition of admission to the sacrament of the Eucharist - had been from early times a great instrument in the civilization of the raw Germanic races.

The natural outcome of these experiences of the author is that he cannot recognize a moral government of the world.

Notwithstanding some obvious moral and intellectual defects, he was the most eminent and the most disinterested of those who had co-operated with William I.

This was the problem that faced Ignatius, and in his endeavour to effect a needed reformation in the individual and in society his work and the success that crowned it place him among the moral heroes of humanity.

In 1866 he became professor of moral philosophy in the university of Glasgow, and in 1893 succeeded Benjamin Jowett as master of Balliol.

In 1759 Ferguson was appointed professor of natural philosophy in the university of Edinburgh, and in 1764 was transferred to the chair of "pneumatics" (mental philosophy) "and moral philosophy."