Word Meanings - MORALISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A maxim or saying embodying a moral truth. Farrar.
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- SAYING
That which is said; a declaration; a statement, especially a proverbial one; an aphorism; a proverb. Many are the sayings of the wise, In ancient and in modern books enrolled. Milton. Syn. -- Declaration; speech; adage; maxim; aphorism; apothegm; - MORALIST
1. One who moralizes; one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties. Addison. 2. One who practices moral duties; a person who lives in conformity with moral rules; - SAYMAN
One who assays. - MORALIZE
1. To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from. This fable is moralized in a common proverb. L'Estrange. Did he not moralize this spectacle Shak. 2. To furnish with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend - TRUTHY
Truthful; likely; probable. "A more truthy import." W. G. Palgrave. - MORALIZATION
1. The act of moralizing; moral reflections or discourse. 2. Explanation in a moral sense. T. Warton. - MORAL
1. Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, - MAXIMIZATION
The act or process of increasing to the highest degree. Bentham. - TRUTHLESS
Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless. -- Truth"less*ness, n. - MAXIMIZE
To increase to the highest degree. Bentham. - TRUTH-LOVER
One who loves the truth. Truth-lover was our English Duke. Tennyson. - EMBODY
To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise. Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott. The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be - MAXIM GUN
A kind of machine gun; -- named after its inventor, Hiram S. Maxim. - TRUTHFUL
Full of truth; veracious; reliable. -- Truth"ful*ly, adv. -- Truth"ful*ness, n. - TRUTHNESS
Truth. Marston. - TRUTH
1. The quality or being true; as: -- Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be. Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like. Plows, - MORALIZER
One who moralizes. - SAYER
One who says; an utterer. Mr. Curran was something much better than a sayer of smart sayings. Jeffrey. - MAXIMILIAN
A gold coin of Bavaria, of the value of about 13s. 6d. sterling, or about three dollars and a quarter. - MAXIMUM
The greatest quantity or value attainable in a given case; or, the greatest value attained by a quantity which first increases and then begins to decrease; the highest point or degree; -- opposed to Ant: minimum. Good legislation is the - SOUTHSAY
See SOOTHSAY - VISAYAN
A member of the most numerous of the native races of the Philippines, occupying the Visayan Islands and the northern coast Mindanao; also, their language. The Visayans possessed a native culture and alphabet. - UNDERSAY
To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser. - ASSAY POUND
A small standard weight used in assaying bullion, etc., sometimes equaling 0.5 gram, but varying with the assayer. - ESSAYER
One who essays. Addison. - GAINSAY
To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid. I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke xxi. 15. The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother, - AGAINSAY
To gainsay. Wyclif. - MISSAY
1. To say wrongly. 2. To speak evil of; to slander. - DEMORALIZATION
The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy. - ESSAY
A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce. 3. An assay. See Assay, n. - GAINSAYER
One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies. "To convince the gainsayers." Tit. i. 9. - SOUTHSAYER
See SOOTHSAYER - UNMORALIZED
Not restrained or tutored by morality. Norris.