Moral+sense

  • 41sense — [[t]sɛns[/t]] n. v. sensed, sens•ing 1) phl any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body 2) phl these faculties collectively 3) phl their …

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  • 42sense — /sɛns / (say sens) noun 1. each of the special faculties connected with bodily organs by which human beings and other animals perceive external objects and their own bodily changes (commonly reckoned as sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch). 2 …

  • 43moral turpitude — noun 1. : an act or behavior that gravely violates the moral sentiment or accepted moral standards of the community; especially : sexual immorality was considered unfit to hold office because of moral turpitude 2. : the morally culpable quality… …

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  • 44moral faculty — Conscience, sense of right and wrong, moral sense …

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  • 45sense of duty — noun a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility • Syn: ↑sense of shame • Hypernyms: ↑conscience, ↑scruples, ↑moral sense, ↑sense of right and wrong …

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  • 46sense of shame — noun a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility • Syn: ↑sense of duty • Hypernyms: ↑conscience, ↑scruples, ↑moral sense, ↑sense of right and wrong …

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  • 47moral suasion — noun Persuasion brought to bear by appeals to ones moral sense or ethics. The temperance movement also exacerbated ethnic tensions. Before 1850 this movement had been primarily one of self denial and moral suasion aimed at persuading the… …

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  • 48moral insanity — Such mental disease as destroys the ability to distinguish between right and wrong in a particular act; a perversion of the moral sense. 29 Am J Rev ed Ins Per § 3 …

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  • 49Moral Theology — • Limited to those doctrines which discuss the relations of man and his free actions to God and his supernatural end, and propose the means instituted by God for the attainment of that end Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Moral Theology …

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  • 50moral — adj Moral, ethical, virtuous, righteous, noble are comparable when they mean conforming to a standard of what is right and good. Moral is the most comprehensive term of the group; in all of its pertinent senses it implies a relationship to… …

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