Superethical
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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 […]"
Example
More examples"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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