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Moralise

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of moralize. UK, alt-of, nonstandard

    "It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […]."

  2. 2
    improve the morals of wordnet
  3. 3
    speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements wordnet
  4. 4
    interpret the moral meaning of wordnet

Etymology

From Old French moraliser, equivalent to moral + -ise.

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