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So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.
Adam Schiff

Meaning of "moral victory" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MORAL VICTORY

moral victory  [ˈmɒrəl ˈvɪktərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MORAL VICTORY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Moral victory is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MORAL VICTORY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Moral victory

A moral victory occurs when a person, team, army or other group loses a confrontation, and yet achieves some other moral gain. This gain might be unrelated to the confrontation in question, and the gain is often considerably less than what would have been accomplished if an actual victory had been achieved. For example, a sports team that is a heavy underdog and loses narrowly to a superior opponent might claim a moral victory, acquitting themselves well even in defeat. A team that plays fairly and loses to a cheating team might also claim a moral victory in spite of the loss. Another moral victory can see seen in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, where the character Giles Corey was pressed to death by large stones because he remained silent, neither denying nor confirming the accusations of witchcraft. Because "witches" had all their land and property taken from them, his silence allowed his children to inherit his land when they could not have otherwise. Others may include scenarios in which a force loses a struggle, but inflicts great losses upon their opponents.

Definition of moral victory in the English dictionary

The definition of moral victory in the dictionary is If you say that someone has won a moral victory, you mean that although they have officially lost a contest or dispute, they have succeeded in showing they are right about something.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MORAL VICTORY


benedictory
ˌbɛnɪˈdɪktərɪ
charactery
ˈkærɪktərɪ
conflictory
kənˈflɪktərɪ
contradictory
ˌkɒntrəˈdɪktərɪ
directory
dɪˈrɛktərɪ
emictory
ɪˈmɪktərɪ
factory
ˈfæktərɪ
interdictory
ˌɪntəˈdɪktərɪ
introductory
ˌɪntrəˈdʌktərɪ
maledictory
ˌmælɪˈdɪktərɪ
manufactory
ˌmænjʊˈfæktərɪ
olfactory
ɒlˈfæktərɪ
rectory
ˈrɛktərɪ
refractory
rɪˈfræktərɪ
satisfactory
ˌsætɪsˈfæktərɪ
self-contradictory
ˌselfkɒntrəˈdɪktərɪ
trajectory
trəˈdʒɛktərɪ
unsatisfactory
ˌʌnsætɪsˈfæktərɪ
valedictory
ˌvælɪˈdɪktərɪ
victory
ˈvɪktərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MORAL VICTORY

moral
moral hazard
moral majority
moral philosophy
Moral Rearmament
moral support
moral theology
morale
morale booster
morale-boosting
moralisation
moraliser
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moralism
moralist
moralistic
moralistically
moralities
morality
morality play

WORDS THAT END LIKE MORAL VICTORY

bomb factory
canning factory
dairy factory
data directory
engineering factory
ex-directory
fish factory
glass factory
glove factory
history
munitions factory
ordnance factory
perfunctory
Pyrrhic victory
refectory
silk factory
street directory
sugar factory
telephone directory
the Directory
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Synonyms and antonyms of moral victory in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «moral victory» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MORAL VICTORY

Find out the translation of moral victory to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of moral victory from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «moral victory» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

道义上的胜利
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

victoria moral
570 millions of speakers

English

moral victory
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नैतिक जीत
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

انتصار معنوي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

моральная победа
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

vitória moral
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নৈতিক বিজয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

victoire morale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kemenangan moral
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

moralischen Sieg
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

精神的勝利
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

도덕적 승리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Moral kemenangan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chiến thắng đạo đức
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தார்மீக வெற்றி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नैतिक विजय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ahlaki zafer
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

vittoria morale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

moralne zwycięstwo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

моральна перемога
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

victorie morală
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ηθική νίκη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

morele oorwinning
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

moralisk seger
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

moralsk seier
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of moral victory

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MORAL VICTORY»

The term «moral victory» is regularly used and occupies the 86.010 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MORAL VICTORY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about moral victory

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QUOTES WITH «MORAL VICTORY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word moral victory.
1
Adam Schiff
So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MORAL VICTORY»

Discover the use of moral victory in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to moral victory and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Following Gandalf: Epic Battles and Moral Victory in the ...
In this new work, Dickerson offers a specifically Christian exploration of morality, choices, and free will in "The Lord of the Rings."
Matthew T. Dickerson, 2003
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Congress Unmasked: Triumph for Democracy, a Moral Victory ...
Contributed articles against the Indian National Congress (I) on dismissal of Bharatiya Janata Party led state governments of Goa and Jharkhand.
‎2005
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Dead Fathers: The Logic of Transference in Modern Narrative
For Marlow, Kurtz's cry, the horror, establishes his moral victory over the forces that destroyed him, forces integral to anyone's nature: He had summed up — he had judged. "The horror!" He was a remarkable man. After all, this was the ...
Nina Schwartz, 1994
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Jerzy Skolimowski: The Cinema of a Nonconformist
They have to prove themselves, which they do, and ultimately they achieve a moral victory. But again, Miller's victory is most blurred; he pays the heaviest price , not only with his own life but also with that of one of his people, for what can be ...
Ewa Mazierska, 2010
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Lu Xun and His Legacy
More important, however, was the notion of "moral victory,"88 the propensity for self-deception that makes Ah Q see reality only in terms favorable to himself. Shneider identifies the idea of moral victory with Ah Q-ism. Ah Q-ism is the attribute of ...
Leo Ou-fan Lee, 1985
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Tough Crowd: An Ethnographic Study of the Social ...
In fact, my dataset contains cases that fit all four possible combinations of technical victory /defeat vs. moral victory /defeat (see Table 4.1). Table 4.1: Cases Exemplifying Combinations of Moral and Technical Outcome. The two combinations ...
Curtis Jackson-Jacobs, 2009
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Understanding Arthur Miller
In The Crucible John Proctor is an ordinary man who achieves an extraordinary moral victory when he is tested in the crucible of the 1692 Salem witch trials. In his struggle against his society's mass hysteria and their authoritarian court, ...
Alice Griffin, 1996
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Combinatorial Games: Tic-Tac-Toe Theory
Second player's moral-victory. To be concrete, consider an N n Van der Waerden Game. In view of Theorem 6.1 the second player has no chance to occupy an n- term A.P. first (if the first player plays rationally); similarly, the second player has ...
József Beck, 2008
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Random Curves: Journeys of a Mathematician
... some kind of moral victory — although if I were asked to explain exactly what kind of moral victory it was, I wouldn't be able to. Perhaps for my parents — more than for me — it provided a kind of closure and made it easier to 60 4 THE ARMY.
NEAL Koblitz, 2009
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Modernity and the Problem of Evil
They are the biblical attitudes of God — equally appropriate alternative responses to a defeated evil. Reconciliation is a third way of living with defeated evil, but it is not always a form of moral victory. In many circumstances, reconciliation may ...
Alan D. Schrift, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MORAL VICTORY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term moral victory is used in the context of the following news items.
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Moral victory for PML-N
ISLAMABAD - The decision of three-member Judicial Commission headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan has exonerated ruling Pakistan Muslim ... «The Nation, Jul 15»
2
Only lawyers win in defamation
This is a hefty price for a case that gives Mr Hockey no moral victory and increases the costs of journalism for Fairfax. This just serves to ... «The Australian Financial Review, Jul 15»
3
Work on City Park golf course destroyed acre of wetlands, Corps of …
The determination is at least a moral victory for opponents of the Bayou Oaks Golf Complex, who had sought to block the development of the ... «The New Orleans Advocate, Jul 15»
4
The 8 Biggest Disasters in US Military History
(3) Battle of Antietam, 1862. Though historians consider it a draw, the Battle of Antietam represented an important moral victory for Union forces. «io9, Jul 15»
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Dundalk 0-0 BATE Borisov (agg 1-2): Gallant Lilywhites hold bossy …
Another moral victory on another night of what might have been for a League of Ireland club in Europe. Somehow Dundalk kept free-flowing ... «Irish Mirror, Jul 15»
6
No Checks, No Balances
The best that can probably be achieved by opponents of this disastrous agreement is a moral victory that embarrasses the president and ... «City Journal, Jul 15»
7
Success! UK Foxes Are Still Safe for Now
... and Wales, good as it may be, was not a moral victory based on the ethics of the issue, but merely a political chess move by Nicola Sturgeon, ... «Care2.com, Jul 15»
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Duties of care in the study of literature.
Adequately pursued, this expanding historical awareness is nearly as much a moral victory as the ability, which we more commonly feel as a ... «The Fortnightly Review, Jul 15»
9
Kunal Kohli to pay Rs 25 lakh as compensation to Jyoti Kapoor
This is a professional, legal and moral victory for my fraternity and me. A friend who had given up on a copyright case half-way through called to ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
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Don't let 'Watchman' change your view of Atticus
The implication is that moral victory may be all we can hope for, that in a fallen world, sometimes we can only persevere. That's accurate ... «Post-Bulletin, Jul 15»

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