remoralizev.
/ˌriːˈmɒrəlʌɪz/, /ˌriːˈmɒrl̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /riˈmɔrəˌlaɪz/ transitive. To make moral again; to re-instil (a person, an organization, etc.) with a sense or a system of morality; (also) to restore morale in (a person, a group of people, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > reform, amend, or correct [verb (transitive)] > make morally better > again
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1817 R. Owen Let. 25 July in Times 30 July 3/3 A plan, which I have proposed, to relieve and remoralize the poor.
1845 Portfolio 1 222 For then will her example contribute to reform, and to remoralise the churches and the nations which reject her creed, as well as those which hold it.
1918 Modesto (Calif.) Evening News 7 Dec. 4/1 The Red Cross will be feeding and reorganizing and remoralizing the people of Europe and Asia.
1932 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 43 79 This new theology was not only remoralized, but it explicitly held itself amenable to morality.
a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 296 He..remoralized his own Party—gave them back their faith.
1991 D. Rowe Wanting Everything (1994) vii. 288 The unifying theme of her prime ministership is her attempt to remoralize the British character.
Derivatives
reˌmoraliˈzation n.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > [noun] > instilling with moral character again
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1817 Times 15 Aug. 3/3 With respect to the re-moralisation of the lower orders, he did not imagine that this plan would have that effect.
1967 Guardian 16 Oct. 6/5 Violence and pain still provide an evil satisfaction which the remoralisation of sex has not yet exorcised.
2007 V. Gatrell City of Laughter xv. 454 None of this was the stuff of radical remoralization.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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