MPage 236
- 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.
- English Word Moralize Definition To render moral; to correct the morals of.
- English Word Moralize Definition To give a moral quality to; to affect the moral quality of, either for better or worse.
- English Word Moralize Definition To make moral reflections; to regard acts and events as involving a moral.
- English Word Moralized Definition of Moralize
- English Word Moralizer Definition One who moralizes.
- English Word Moralizing Definition of Moralize
- English Word Morally Definition In a moral or ethical sense; according to the rules of morality.
- English Word Morally Definition According to moral rules; virtuously.
- English Word Morally Definition In moral qualities; in disposition and character; as, one who physically and morally endures hardships.
- English Word Morally Definition In a manner calculated to serve as the basis of action; according to the usual course of things and human judgment; according to reason and probability.
- English Word Morass Definition A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
- English Word morassy Definition Marshy; fenny.
- English Word Morate Definition A salt of moric acid.
- English Word Moration Definition A delaying tarrying; delay.
- English Word Moravian Definition Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n.
- English Word Moravian Definition One of a religious sect called the United Brethren (an offshoot of the Hussites in Bohemia), which formed a separate church of Moravia, a northern district of Austria, about the middle of the 15th century. After being nearly extirpated by persecution, the society, under the name of The Renewed Church of the United Brethren, was reestablished in 1722-35 on the estates of Count Zinzendorf in Saxony. Called also Herrnhuter.
- English Word Moravianism Definition The religious system of the Moravians.
- English Word Moray Definition A muraena.
- English Word Morbid Definition Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant.
- English Word Morbid Definition Of or pertaining to disease or diseased parts; as, morbid anatomy.