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moralize

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈmɒ.ɹə.laɪz/Part of speech verbSorted aeilmorzStarts with MEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. improve the morals of

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • One hoped, and the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them. But you’ll not want to hear my moralising, Mr. Lockwood; you’ll judge, as well as I can, all these things:
  • The usual conduct of the spoilt child! Had she not witnessed it, and moralized upon it, in other families?
  • “Unless I heard the whole repeated, I cannot continue it,” she said. / “Yet it was quickly learned, ‘soon gained, soon gone,’” moralized the tutor.

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