| 单词 | small morals |
| 释义 | > as lemmassmall morals small morals n. minor social conventions; the proprieties of everyday life; cf. petite morale n. rare (chiefly with reference to Hobbes's use). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > prescribed rule of conduct > rules of behaviour in small matters small morals1651 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. xi. 47 By Manners, I mean not here, Decency of behaviour; as how one man should salute another, or how a man should wash his mouth, or pick his teeth before company, and such other points of the Small Moralls. 1783 J. Price Saddle put on Right Horse 66 A people so famed for the practice of the great and small morals. 1806 Universal Mag. Nov. 386/1 Addison, the best instructor of the small morals that ever lived. 1905 Rep. Comm. Council Educ. Scotl. App. Part I. 443 As regards the ‘small morals’..one seems to trace in school the foundations of that formal politeness, so characteristic of the German nation. 2001 D. Bromwich in Southwest Rev. 86 246 One has to understand moral in close relation to mores, and in relation to manners or ‘small morals’. < as lemmas |
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