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Definition of Moral

Moral 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. 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. Capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by a sense of right; subject to the law of duty. 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. Supported by reason or probability; practically sufficient; -- opposed to legal or demonstrable; as, a moral evidence; a moral certainty. Serving to teach or convey a moral; as, a moral lesson; moral tales. The doctrine or practice of the duties of life; manner of living as regards right and wrong; conduct; behavior; -- usually in the plural. 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. A morality play. See Morality, 5. To moralize. Related Definitions: Accepted, Act, Acting, Action, An, And, Anything, Are, As, Be, Behavior, Being, By, Capable, Certainty, Conduct, Conformed, Conformity, Convey, Demonstrable, Designed, Directed, Distinction, Doctrine, Duties, Duty, Each, Evidence, Experience, Fable, Far, Fiction, Fitted, From, Governed, In, Inculcated, Inner, Is, Just, Law, Legal, Lesson, Life, Living, Man, Manner, Material, Maxim, Meaning, Meant, Men, Moral, Morality, Moralize, Narrative, Nature, Obligation, Occurrence, Of, One, Opposed, Or, Other, Ought, Pertaining, Physical, Play, Plural, Practical, Practically, Practice, Predicated, Pressure, Probability, Properly, Rather, Reason, Relating, Relation, Religious, Right, See, Sense, Serving, Significance, So, Social, Sometimes, Subject, Such, Sufficient, Suited, Support, Supported, Tales, Teach, Than, The, They, Those, Through, To, Upon, Used, Vice, Virtue, Virtuous, Which, With, Wrong

Moral Quotations Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Plato Money has no moral opinions. Abraham Polonsky The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people. Ron Paul War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. John Stuart Mill The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. Dante Alighieri

Moral Translations moral in Afrikaans is moreel moral in Dutch is zedelijk, moreel, zedenkundig moral in German is sittlich, moralisch moral in Italian is morale, etico moral in Spanish is moral moral in Swedish is etisk, sedlig, moralisk

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