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▪ I. moralizing, vbl. n.|ˈmɒrəlaɪzɪŋ|
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†1. The action of explaining the moral meaning of (a fable or tale); a moralization, moral. Obs.
c1422Hoccleve Jereslaus' Wife Moralization 12 Where is the moralizynge..Bycome heere-of? was ther noon in the book Out of the which þat thow this tale took?
2. The action of making moral.
1677Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iii. Pref., There are many excellent Philosophemes and Notions..which..may be of great use..for the moralising of persons and republics. 1691–8Norris Pract. Disc. (1711) III. 227 Such studies as signify little or nothing to the moralizing of their Minds.
3. Moral reflection; an instance of this.
1692R. L'Estrange Fables ccxcvi. 258 And let there be No Moralizing in the Pulpit upon the Fable. 1727De Foe Syst. Magic i. i. (1840) 31 But to leave moralizing,..I go on with my story. 1870Mrs. Stowe Oldtown xxviii, It will be seen by these edifying moralisings how eminently scriptural was the course of Sam's mind.
▪ II. moralizing, ppl. a.|ˈmɒrəlaɪzɪŋ|
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That moralizes, in the senses of the verb.
1796Coleridge To Yng. Friend Poems (1877) I. 154 It were a lot divine To cheat our noons in moralizing mood. 1816Remarks Eng. Mann. 79 A nation of moralizing, thinking people. 1825Southey Paraguay iii. xx, A land Which..should one day Take up from thence his moralizing lay. 1869Lecky Europ. Mor. (1880) I. ii. 291 We find a society almost absolutely destitute of moralising institutions. 1902J. H. Rose Napoleon xii. 295 He [i.e. the legislator] will turn by preference to education as a more potent moralizing agency. 1904Speaker 23 Apr. 93/1 Thackeray and the other moralising theorists were wrong.
Hence ˈmoralizingly adv.
1782E. N. Blower Geo. Bateman III. 180 They likewise moralizingly observed, that [etc.]. 1865Daily Tel. 15 Dec. 5/3 Moralisingly, she added,..There were girls since the world began [etc.]. |