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moralism

/mawr-uh-liz-uhm, mor-/US // ˈmɔr əˌlɪz əm, ˈmɒr- //UK // (ˈmɒrəˌlɪzəm) //

道德主义,道德精神,道德观,道德观念

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the habit of moralizing.
    • : a moral maxim.
    • : emphasis, especially undue emphasis, on morality.
    • : the practice of morality, as distinct from religion.

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Examples

  • The Madea films thrive on an ugly mix of minstrelsy and moralism.

  • There is, to be sure, something wonderful about the Jewish outsider-ness, the irony and the moralism.

  • Republicanism has become a Southern Gothic farce of paranoia, resentment, scandal, and hypocritical moralism.

  • Grant the foregoing argument, and all the apparatus of abstract moralism follows in its wake.

  • Animism, theism, pantheism, are destined to fall under the domination of what may be called moralism.

  • Moralism is usually identified as belief in good behavior as a source of life.

  • If they are mystical quietists, they regard mere moralism as the struggling of a soul that is not saved.

  • Pluralistic moralism simply makes their teeth chatter, it refrigerates the very heart within their breast.