Mor"al, v. i. To moralize. [Obs.] Shak.
||Mo`rale" (?), n. [F. See Moral, a.] The moral condition, or the
||condition in other respects, so far as it is affected by, or
||dependent upon, moral considerations, such as zeal, spirit, hope, and
||confidence; mental state, as of a body of men, an army, and the like.
Mor"al*er (?), n. A moralizer. [Obs.] Shak.
Mor"al*ism (?), n. A maxim or saying embodying a moral truth. Farrar.
Mor"al*ist, n. [Cf. F. moraliste.] 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; one of correct deportment and dealings with his
fellow-creatures; -- sometimes used in contradistinction to one whose
life is controlled by religious motives.
The love (in the moralist of virtue, but in the Christian) of God
himself.
Hammond.
Mo*ral"i*ty (?), n.; pl. Moralities (#). [L. moralitas: cf. F.
moralité.] 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.
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.
2. The quality of an action which renders it good; the conformity of an
act to the accepted standard of right.
Of moralitee he was the flower.
Chaucer.