The people adopted the government they had framed, and thus gave it its moral authority.
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Moral authority
Synonyms for "moral authority" (16 found)
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Closest matches (4)
Adjective(4 words)
Strong matches (4)
Adjective(3 words)
Noun(1 words)
leadership authority
Related words (8)
Adjective(6 words)
Noun(2 words)
legitimate powermorally authoritative
Related word relations
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10 entriesethical influenceethical justificationethical leadershipethical persuasioninstitutional authoritymoral argumentmoral influencemoral leadershipmoral suasionsocial leadership
Collocations
11 entriesexert moral authoritygain moral authoritylose moral authorityloss of moral authoritymaintain moral authoritymoral authority figuremoral authority in educationmoral authority of parentsmoral authority stancemoral authority statuspersonal moral authority
Inflections
3 entriesmoral authoritiesmore moral authoritymost moral authority
Derivations
2 entriesmorallymorally authoritative
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
There was an essay . . . devoted to a consideration of the many questions which must be reopened and reconsidered on their merits if the teaching of the Church of England were to cease to carry moral authority.
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While the Dalai Lama is lauded in much of the world as a figure of moral authority, Beijing reviles the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
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At first Martin Luther King Jr. invoked Booker as a moral authority for King's ethic of love and his posture of passive resistance to white hatred.
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