ethicism

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I gazed after the broken, refluent wave of these amiable creatures, with the vague toleration here formulated, but I was not quite at peace in it, or fully consoled in my habitual ethicism till the next event brought the hunters with their high-jumping into the ring.

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  1. Ethical quality or spirit; tendency to moralize. The literature of those great men was … the Socinian graft of a Calvinist stock. Their faith … was Unitarian, but their art was Puritan. So far as it was imperfect — … it had its imperfections — it was marred by the intense ethicism that pervaded the New England mind for two hundred years, and that still characterizes it. … They … pointed the moral in all they did. W. D. Howells, in Harper's Mag., Nov., 1895, p. 867.

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  • I gazed after the broken, refluent wave of these amiable creatures, with the vague toleration here formulated, but I was not quite at peace in it, or fully consoled in my habitual ethicism till the next event brought the hunters with their high-jumping into the ring. —  Literature and Life (Complete)
  • He had his whole being in his belief; it had not only liberated him from the bonds of the Calvinistic theology in which his youth was trammelled, but it had secured him against the conscious ethicism of the prevailing —  Cambridge Neighbors (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
  • So far as it was imperfect -- and great and beautiful as it was, I think it had its imperfections -- it was marred by the intense ethicism that pervaded the —  Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship
  • I do not forget the fictions of Doctor Holmes, or the vivid inventions of Doctor Hale, but I do not call them novels; and I do not forget the exquisitely realistic art of Miss Jewett or Miss Wilkins, which is free from the ethicism of the great New England group, but which has hardly the novelists's scope. —  Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship
  • The most beautiful girl in world stilt, a new pro from berating, extrovert a amoebous ethicism and tragopogon as the differential to cory. —  POWET.TV
 

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