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mores

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1. mores - Noun

2. mores - Verb

Meaning

(sociology) the conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group

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Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them. David Ogilvy

His Comoedies will remaine witt as long as the English tongue is understood, for that he handles mores hominum [the ways of mankind]. Now our present writers reflect so much on particular persons and coxcombeities that twenty yeares hence they will not be understood. John Aubrey

He was not psychotic enough to set himself up as a chosen arbiter of mores and laws. Mark Clifton

The mores I return to myself, the more I divest myself, under the traumatic effect of persecution, of my freedom as a constituted, wilful, imperialistic subject, the more I discover myself to be responsible' the more just I am, the more guilty I am. I am 'in myself' through others. Emmanuel Levinas

His travel with his father helped him to gather information about the sexual mores of different people of different parts of India and neighboring countries. Vātsyāyana

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority. Eleanor Roosevelt

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