Dictionary Entry

moral

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ˈmɒɹəl/Used In Literature ↓

(of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson.

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Common Phrases

law moralphilosophy moralcharacter moralsense moralvalues moralprinciples moral

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Poetry examples for “moral”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Yet swinken nat sans secresie.
Thilke moral shall ye understond,
From schoole-boy's tale of fayre Irelond:

A long, exact, and serious comedy;
In every scene some moral let it teach,
And if it can, at once both please and preach.

Yet soft his nature, though severe his lay,
His anger moral, and his wisdom gay.
Bless'd satirist! who touch'd the mean so true,

Go live! for Heaven's eternal year is thine,
Go, and exalt thy moral to divine.

_of the creation, or expecting that perfection in the_
moral _world, which is not in the_ natural.

irregularities in the numbers, arising from a change in the order of the
Moral Essays after the sheets were struck off.

A good companion, and as firm a friend, 20
One moral, or a mere well-natured deed
Can all desert in sciences exceed.

Nor yet shall Waller yield to time,
Nor pensive Cowley's moral lay.

MORAL ESSAYS,
IN FOUR EPISTLES TO SEVERAL PERSONS.

Who lead fair Virtue's train along,
Moral truth, and mystic song!
To what new clime, what distant sky,