Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To render ethical; assign ethical attributes to.

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Examples

  • In effect, he rarely attempts to ethicize the Bible story.

    Josephus Norman Bentwich 1927

  • In effect, he rarely attempts to ethicize the Bible story.

    Josephus Bentwich, Norman 1914

  • Ultimate is that in Buddhism the effort to rationalize and ethicize the universe of experience is abandoned as a hopeless task; the world entirely and completely resists the rational and ethical process.

    Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902

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