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单词 morality
释义 mo·ral·i·ty
\məˈraləd.ē, mȯˈ-, mōˈ-, -ətē, -i\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: Middle English moralitee, from Middle French moralité, from Late Latin moralitat-, moralitas, from Latin moralis moral + -tat-, -tas -ty — more at moral
1. moralities plural, archaic : moral traits
 < a saint … in her moralities — Lord Byron >
2.
 a. : a moral discourse, statement, or lesson : a piece of moralizing
  < a poem full of commonplace moralities >
  < ended his lecture with a trite morality >
 b. : a literary or other imaginative work conceived as a moral allegory and teaching a moral lesson
  < the book's undeniable power as a morality is diminished by … a style of bright impersonal smartness — Times Literary Supplement >
  < has managed to turn out a morality in which he spares his readers any moralizing — Time >
 c. : morality play
  < increased use of the comic element marked the development of the moralities as popular plays — F.H.O'Hara & Marqueritte Bro >
3.
 a. : a doctrine or system of ideas concerned with conduct
  < the basic law which an adequate morality ought to state — Marjorie Grene >
  < the object of systems of morality is to take possession of human life — Matthew Arnold >
 b. moralities plural : particular moral principles or rules of conduct
  < we were all brought up on one of these moralitiesPsychiatry >
  < instruction in the fundamental moralities of life … and its decent amenities — W.A.White >
4. : the quality or fact of conforming to or deriving from right ideals of human conduct
 < admitted the expediency of the law but questioned its morality >
5.
 a. : moral conduct : goodness and uprightness of behavior : virtue
  < morality consists in the aims at the ideal — A.N.Whitehead >
  < a new low in public moralityCurrent History >
  < a person of strict morality >
  < morality today involves a responsible relationship toward the laws of the natural world — P.B.Sears >
 b. : conduct conforming to the customs or accepted standards of a particular culture or group
  < in Christian love and forgiveness lay some reversal of Saxon morality — H.O.Taylor >
  < the morality of a world plunging itself into chaos — G.P.Musselman >
  < an abyss separated the domestic and business morality of the Victorian world — F.B.Millett >
  < customs, moralities, scenes, and quaint observances of the time — Joseph Hudnut >
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