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Moralise

verb
1.
Interpret the moral meaning of.  Synonym: moralize.
2.
Speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements.  Synonyms: moralize, preachify, sermonise, sermonize.
3.
Improve the morals of.  Synonym: moralize.






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"Moralise" Quotes from Famous Books



... queer light of your own. I felt that the touch of a chain would fret you. I gave you absolute freedom—often when I craved for you. I made no demands. I assented to your philosophic analysis of the situation—it is your way to moralise whimsically on everything, as if you were a disconnected intelligence outside the universe—and I paid no attention to it. I used to laugh at you—oh, not unkindly, but lovingly, happily, victoriously. ...
— The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne • William J. Locke

... thought, I by no means invited them. Even with the time available the occasion was always awry for such reflection. These dainty triflers made sulking as impossible amongst them as philosophy in a ballroom. When I stalked out like that from the library in fine mood to moralise and apostrophise heaven in a way that would no doubt have looked fine upon these pages, one sprightly damsel, just as the gloomy rhetoric was bursting from my lips, thrust a flower under my nose whose scent brought on a violent attack of sneezing, ...
— Gulliver of Mars • Edwin L. Arnold

... intellectual employments. They find time hang heavy on their hands, and, unknown almost to themselves, fall into the practice of drinking, till it becomes a habit. I am no teetotaller, and do not want to moralise unnecessarily; still it is impossible, after a few months' residence in the settlement, not to be struck with the facts ...
— A First Year in Canterbury Settlement • Samuel Butler

... freebooter, with characteristic impetuosity, shut the steel box with a loud snap, put it under his arm, rose, and walked out of the place without uttering a word. He went down to the beach and rowed away, leaving Moses to moralise on the uncertainty of all ...
— Under the Waves - Diving in Deep Waters • R M Ballantyne



Words linked to "Moralise" :   moralisation, sermonise, moralize, rectify, reclaim, advocate, preachify, regenerate, preach, rede, interpret, reform, sermonize



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