单词 | mores |
释义 | mores (once / 4319 pages) n Mores are the customs, norms, and behaviors that are acceptable to a society or social group. If your personal morals are in disagreement with local mores, you should be prepared to be annoyed every time you read the local Letters to the Editor. Mores and morals have similar meanings––mores are the morals of a group or society itself. They are not necessarily based on written law and they can change. The mores of the Victorian era prescribed modesty for women. A Victorian time traveling to our time would probably be shocked by current mores that allow women to wear shorts. WORD FAMILYmores USAGE EXAMPLESLike Scalia, both are originalists, which the late justice defined as interpreting the constitution as it was meant when adopted, not according to contemporary mores. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) Italian playwright whose energetic mocking of Italian political life, social mores and religion won him praise, scorn and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Seattle Times(Dec 14, 2016) “These kids are able now to see themselves in environments that are expansive, both technologically and in terms of social mores and gender,” he said. New York Times(Dec 12, 2016) n (sociology) the conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group Hyper convention, formula, normal, pattern, rule something regarded as a normative example |
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