moralize

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To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from.

To furnish with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend a moral to.

To render moral; to correct the morals of.

To give a moral quality to; to affect the moral quality of, either for better or worse.

To make moral reflections; to regard acts and events as involving a moral.

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We moralize among ruins. Benjamin Disraeli

Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song. Edmund Spenser

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done. Jacques Barzun

The attachment to a rationalistic, teleological notion of progress indicates the absence of true progress; he whose life does not unfold satisfyingly under its own momentum is driven to moralize it, to set up goals and rationalize their achievement as progress. John Carroll

Never shall we apprehend the nature of true divinity nor the true divineness of Jesus of Nazareth, the Carpenter's Son, till we learn to moralize our theology, training ourselves to lay less stress on "Almighty" Edwin Abbott Abbott

Serving humanity is a moral category that obliges people to moralize politics. Zafar Mirzo

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