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.