Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word MORALIZE
MORALIZE
Definitions of MORALIZE
- (intransitive) To make moral reflections (on, upon, about or over something); to regard acts and events as involving a moral.
- (transitive) To say (something) expressing a moral reflection or judgment.
- (transitive) To render moral; to correct the morals of; to give the appearance of morality to.
- (transitive) To give a moral quality to; to affect the moral quality of, either for better or worse.
- (transitive, obsolete) To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from.
- (transitive, obsolete) To supply with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend a moral to.
Number of letters
8
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using MORALIZE in a Sentence
- Music critic Peter Gammond has written:
Although the broadsides occasionally printed traditional 'rural' ballads, the bulk of them were of urban origin, written by the journalistic hacks of the day to cover such news as a robbery or a hanging, to moralize, or simply to offer entertainment.
- As a form of governmentality that redefines freedom, neoliberalism will moralize politics, limiting its scope; this is the function of neo-conservatism.
- Cicero considered his work jejune, and Livy did not consider him fully reliable, due to his tendency to moralize and politicize the histories that he recounted.
- Instead, by juxtaposing "the rationalizing adult" and the "child's intransigent refusal to accept his categories", Wordsworth reveals his unwillingness to moralize.
- In many respects, New York has returned to a more connected, locally-driven time in this story, although the narrative does not moralize it, using a character study approach of Adele to contemplate - somewhat ambivalently - the drawbacks and benefits of the altered world versus normalcy.
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