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Moral

adjective

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" Antonym: immoral.

Psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect. "Moral support"

noun

The significance of a story or event. Synonym: lesson.

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"Moral" Quotes from Famous Books

... British influence and effort, if we can distil from modern India some of the new ideas prevailing, particularly in the new middle class. Where shall we find evidence reliable of what British influence has been? Government Reports, largely statistical, of "The Moral and Material Progress of India," are so far serviceable, but only as crude material from which the answer is to be distilled. Members of the Indian Civil Service, and others belonging to the British Government of India, may volunteer as expert witnesses regarding British influence, but ...

— New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century - A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments • John Morrison

... you say that? You know quite well that most kinds of immorality are far more readily forgiven by people of the world than sincere heterodoxy on moral subjects.' ...

— Born in Exile • George Gissing

... of the Peruvians received from the Deity a golden rod, with which in his wanderings he was to strike the earth, until in some destined spot the earth entirely absorbed it, and there—and there alone—was he to erect a temple to the Divinity. What is this fable but the cloak of an inestimable moral? Our reason is the rod of gold; the vast world of truth gives the soil, which it is perpetually to sound; and only where without resistance the soil receives the rod which guided and supported us will our altar be sacred and our worship ...

— Devereux, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... special twist and interpretation in cases where the Negro is a party to litigation, but even words in ordinary use lose their accepted meaning when applied to him. The word "duty," for instance, has not a scintilla of moral significance in it when used about or spoken to a Negro. It has purely an industrial and economic meaning, which may be expressed in the injunction, "Servants, obey your masters." The word "kindness," which implies one of the noblest traits of human nature, when applied to a Negro ...

— Peonage - The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 15 • Lafayette M. Hershaw

... harmony and unity. It is an aesthetic deficiency which counts not only where art and artificial beauty are in question, but shows still more in the practical surroundings and the forms of life. The nation which is and always has been controlled by strong idealistic moral impulses takes small care of the aesthetic ideals. The large expenditures for external beautification must not deceive. Just as the theatre is to the American essentially entertainment and amusement and ...

— Psychology and Social Sanity • Hugo Muensterberg

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