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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A conventional moral maxim or attitude.
- noun The act or practice of moralizing.
- noun Often undue concern for morality.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A moral maxim or saying; moral counsel or advice; moral sermonizing; inculcation of morality.
- noun The practice of morality as distinct from religion; the absorption of religion in mere morality.
- noun A tendency to moralize; a habit of moralizing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A maxim or saying embodying a moral truth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act or practice of
moralizing . - noun A
maxim orsaying embodying a moral truth.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a moral maxim
- noun judgments about another person's morality
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