单词 | moral welfare |
释义 | > as lemmasmoral welfare moral welfare n. the well-being of a person, community, etc., esp. with regard to sexual and family matters. ΚΠ 1806 Lady Morgan Wild Irish Girl I. p. iv The rights of primogeniture, and the mild and prudent cast of your brother's character, left me no cares either for his worldly interest or moral welfare. 1909 Truth (Sydney) 20 June 5/2 As a newspaper proprietor, he could confidently claim to have done more for the material and moral welfare of the People than all the wowsers of Wellington and their wopsters put together. 1927 8th Ann. Rep. Archbishops' Advisory Board Preventive & Rescue Work 9 The League of Nations Report on the Traffic in Women and Children..has awakened an interest in moral welfare work that is bound to help in arousing the public conscience against prostitution. 1990 H. Hendrick Images of Youth 208 The economic and moral welfare of working-class youth. < as lemmas |
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