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Moral   /mˈɔrəl/   Listen
Moral

adjective
1.
Concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles.  "A moral scrutiny" , "A moral lesson" , "A moral quandary" , "Moral convictions" , "A moral life"
2.
Psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect.  "Moral support"
noun
1.
The significance of a story or event.  Synonym: lesson.



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"Moral" Quotes from Famous Books



... Madame de Merteuil. It raised in my mind a detestation of such cold-blooded, inhuman profligacy, and I felt that I would rather every pleasure that can flow from the intercourse of women were debarred me than run such a course. The moral effect upon my mind was stronger than any which ever resulted from the most didactic work, and if anyone wants to excite remorse in the most vicious mind I would recommend him to make use of 'Les Liaisons ...
— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William - IV, Volume 1 (of 3) • Charles C. F. Greville
... his world should see in him an incorrigible scoffer at moral conventions. He rather enjoyed being the object of maternal warnings to young daughters, but in financial affairs no stern moralist could have been more observant of rigid integrity, and in that, as in other things, he reversed the usual order. The business involved in the ...
— A Pagan of the Hills • Charles Neville Buck
... for the common forms of labor. But in old Japan the occupation of the farmer and artisan were not despised; trade alone appears to have been considered degrading, and the distinction may have been partly a moral one." ...
— Where Half The World Is Waking Up • Clarence Poe
... a sort of moral isolation, amid all this immorality, and, although she had learned suddenly to disseminate, although she received the comtesse with outstretched hand and smiling lips, she felt this consciousness of hollowness, this contempt for humanity increasing and enveloping ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant
... secured we must prepare and work out a plan of scientific organization sufficiently complete in its details to serve as a guide in organizing an Association. For my own part, I feel no capability whatever of directing an Association by discipline, by ideas of duty, moral suasion and any other similar means. I want organization; I want a mechanism suited and adapted to human nature, so that human nature can follow its laws and attractions and go rightly, and be its own guide. ...
— Brook Farm • John Thomas Codman


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