Superethical

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    More than ethical; above ethics.

    "a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay Moral theology, which contains a superethical doctrine, as grave divines have ridiculously called it, rendered the system of ethics in the writings of the ancient fathers […] more confused […]"

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"a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay Moral theology, which contains a superethical doctrine, as grave divines have ridiculously called it, rendered the system of ethics in the writings of the ancient fathers […] more confused […]"

Etymology

From super- + ethical.

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