单词 | morality |
释义 | mo·ral·i·ty 1. moralities plural, archaic < a saint … in her moralities — Lord Byron > 2. a. < a poem full of commonplace moralities > < ended his lecture with a trite morality > b. < 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. < increased use of the comic element marked the development of the moralities as popular plays — F.H.O'Hara & Marqueritte Bro > 3. a. < 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 < we were all brought up on one of these moralities — Psychiatry > < instruction in the fundamental moralities of life … and its decent amenities — W.A.White > 4. < admitted the expediency of the law but questioned its morality > 5. a. < morality consists in the aims at the ideal — A.N.Whitehead > < a new low in public morality — Current History > < a person of strict morality > < morality today involves a responsible relationship toward the laws of the natural world — P.B.Sears > b. < 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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