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Meaning:

Noun:

  • archaic A lesson or pronouncement which contains advice about proper behavior.
  • countable A set of personal guiding principles for conduct or a general notion of how to behave, whether respectable or not.
  • countable A set of social rules, customs, traditions, beliefs, or practices which specify proper, acceptable forms of conduct.
  • rare A particular theory concerning the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil.
  • rare Moral philosophy, the branch of philosophy which studies the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil.
  • uncountable Recognition of the behaving in a manner intended to produce morally good results.

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