单词 | moralization |
释义 | moralizationn. 1. The action of moralizing; moral interpretation or reflection; a moralizing commentary (of, on, or upon a text, passage, etc.). ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > instilling ideas > [noun] > edification > application to moralization1447 moralizing1592 improvement1603 sermonizing1796 society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > text > criticism, interpretation > [noun] > moral moralization1447 tropologyc1475 society > morality > [noun] > indulgence in moral reflection moralization1795 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > [noun] > moral reflection moralizing1592 moralization1795 moralling1890 1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) 1601 Modyr of ihesu, whiche to sygnyfie ‘A byttyr see’ and ‘saluacyon’; Wher-of, lo, a bref moralizacyon. ?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 229 (MED) Of þis wey for to make moralysacyon, Be þe ryth syde ȝe xal vndyrstonde mercy And on þe lefte syde lykkenyd dysperacion. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) v. 24 Who knewe gramer wythout impediment Shoulde perfytely have intelleccion Of a lytterall cense and moralyzacion. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xxvi. sig. Mviiv If the players haue radde the moralization of the chesse. 1599 F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) 74 The learned molinet, in his moralizatione of that Romant. 1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. ii. 61 William Wallis..who made a booke of Moralizations upon Ovids Metamorphosis. 1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry (1778) II. 169 The glossarist I take to be Philip de Pergamo, a prior at Padua; who wrote a most elaborate Moralisation on Cato. 1795 R. Anderson Life Samuel Johnson 201 These compositions..evince..that happy art of moralization, by which he gives to well-known incidents the grace of novelty and the force of instruction. 1820 Retrospective Rev. 2 5 [In Sidney's Arcadia] there is perceptible an air..of melancholy yet not gloomy moralization. 1846 T. Wright Ess. Middle Ages II. xii. 62 In the thirteenth century these stories with moralizations were already used extensively by the monks. 1892 F. J. Furnivall Hoccleve's Minor Poems p. vi The Tale of Jereslaus's Wife and Her False Brother-in-Law, from Gesta Romanorum... The Moralization. 1956 Life 2 Apr. 30/2 What then is the moral of this news? It is beyond moralization. 1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 453/1 Freud's anti-religious bias is believed to have thrown light on the need for love to abolish moralization. 1988 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Jan. 32/2 You cannot subsist on a mixture of atheoretical middle-brow writing, however clear, intelligent and civilized, with mere moralization. 2. The action of making something moral or more moral; the process of becoming moral. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > [noun] > improvement in moral condition moralizing1677 moralization1848 1848 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 15 325 None ever laboured more for their happiness and moralization. 1884 Church Reformer 201 Those who would work at the moralization of our literature. 1892 C. G. Montefiore Hibbert Lect. ii. 101 The moralization of Yahveh's character was by no means completed at the close of the pre-prophetic period. 1907 Fortn. Rev. July 60 Its realm is the heart, and its realisation only possible through the moralisation of society. 1987 F. Mort Dangerous Sexualities 88 The moralization of public life..was producing a new language of politics and an insistence that men holding public office should outwardly subscribe to respectable standards of personal conduct. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1447 |
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