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morality
(encz) | morality,ctnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
morality
(encz) | morality,etika n: Zdeněk Brož |
morality
(encz) | morality,morálka n: Zdeněk Brož |
morality
(encz) | morality,mravnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Morality
(gcide) | Morality \Mo*ral"i*ty\, n.; pl. Moralities. [L. moralitas: cf.
F. moralit['e].]
1. The relation of conformity or nonconformity to the moral
standard or rule; quality of an intention, a character, an
action, a principle, or a sentiment, when tried by the
standard of right.
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The morality of an action is founded in the freedom
of that principle, by virtue of which it is in the
agent's power, having all things ready and requisite
to the performance of an action, either to perform
or not perform it. --South.
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2. The quality of an action which renders it good; the
conformity of an act to the accepted standard of right.
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Of moralitee he was the flower. --Chaucer.
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I am bold to think that morality is capable of
demonstration. --Locke.
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3. The doctrines or rules of moral duties, or the duties of
men in their social character; ethics.
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The end of morality is to procure the affections to
obey reason, and not to invade it. --Bacon.
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The system of morality to be gathered out of . . .
ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in
the gospel. --Swift.
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4. The practice of the moral duties; rectitude of life;
conformity to the standard of right; virtue; as, we often
admire the politeness of men whose morality we question.
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5. A kind of allegorical play, so termed because it consisted
of discourses in praise of morality between actors
representing such characters as Charity, Faith, Death,
Vice, etc. Such plays were occasionally exhibited as late
as the reign of Henry VIII. --Strutt.
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6. Intent; meaning; moral. [Obs.]
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Taketh the morality thereof, good men. --Chaucer.
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morality
(wn) | morality
n 1: concern with the distinction between good and evil or right
and wrong; right or good conduct [ant: immorality]
2: motivation based on ideas of right and wrong [syn: {ethical
motive}, ethics, morals, morality] |
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amorality
(encz) | amorality,nemorálnost n: |
immorality
(encz) | immorality,nemorálnost n: Zdeněk Brožimmorality,nemravnost n: Zdeněk Brožimmorality,nesmrtelnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
morality
(encz) | morality,ctnost n: Zdeněk Brožmorality,etika n: Zdeněk Brožmorality,morálka n: Zdeněk Brožmorality,mravnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
morality play
(encz) | morality play,moralita n: středověký divadelní žánr Jiří Drbálek |
sexual immorality
(encz) | sexual immorality, n: |
sexual morality
(encz) | sexual morality, n: |
unmorality
(encz) | unmorality,nemravnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Immorality
(gcide) | Immorality \Im`mo*ral"i*ty\, n.; pl. Immoralities. [Cf. F.
immoralit['e].]
1. The state or quality of being immoral; vice.
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The root of all immorality. --Sir W.
Temple.
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2. An immoral act or practice.
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Luxury and sloth and then a great drove of heresies
and immoralities broke loose among them. --Milton.
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Unmorality
(gcide) | Unmoral \Un*mor"al\, a.
Having no moral perception, quality, or relation; involving
no idea of morality; -- distinguished from both moral and
immoral. -- Un`mo*ral"i*ty, n.
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amorality
(wn) | amorality
n 1: the quality of being amoral |
immorality
(wn) | immorality
n 1: the quality of not being in accord with standards of right
or good conduct; "the immorality of basing the defense of
the West on the threat of mutual assured destruction" [ant:
morality]
2: morally objectionable behavior [syn: evil, immorality,
wickedness, iniquity] |
morality
(wn) | morality
n 1: concern with the distinction between good and evil or right
and wrong; right or good conduct [ant: immorality]
2: motivation based on ideas of right and wrong [syn: {ethical
motive}, ethics, morals, morality] |
morality play
(wn) | morality play
n 1: an allegorical play popular in the 15th and 16th centuries;
characters personified virtues and vices |
sexual immorality
(wn) | sexual immorality
n 1: the evil ascribed to sexual acts that violate social
conventions; "sexual immorality is the major reason for
last year's record number of abortions" |
sexual morality
(wn) | sexual morality
n 1: morality with respect to sexual relations [syn: virtue,
chastity, sexual morality] |
IMMORALITY
(bouvier) | IMMORALITY. that which is contra bonos mores. In England, it is not
punishable in some cases, at the common law, on, account of the
ecclesiastical jurisdictions: e. g. adultery. But except in cases belonging
to the ecclesiastical courts, the court of king's bench is the custom morum,
and may punish delicto contra bonos mores. 3 Burr. Rep. 1438; 1 Bl. Rep. 94;
2 Strange, 788. In Pennsylvania, and most, if not all the United States, all
such cases come under one and the same jurisdiction.
2. Immoral contracts are generally void; an agreement in consideration
of future illicit cohabitation between the parties; 3 Burr. 1568; S. C. 1
Bl. Rep. 517; 1 Esp. R. 13; 1 B. & P. 340, 341; an agreement for the value
of libelous and immoral pictures, 4 Esp. R. 97; or for printing a libel, 2
Stark. R. 107; or for an immoral wager, Chit. Contr. 156, cannot, therefore,
be enforced. For whatever arises from an immoral or illegal consideration,
is void: quid turpi ex causa promissum est non valet. Inst. 3, 20, 24.
3. It is a general rule, that whenever an agreement appears to be
illegal, immoral, or against public policy, a court of justice leaves the
parties where it finds them; when the agreement has been executed, the court
will not rescind it; when executory, the count will not help the execution.
4 Ohio R. 419; 4 John. R. 419; 11 John. R. 388; 12 John. R. 306; 19 John. R.
341; 3 Cowen's R. 213; 2 Wils. R. 341.
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