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I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be rewarded, when in fact it is mostly simply the fact of being the central character that ensures a favourable outcome. Fairy tales are not, on the whole, parables.
A. S. Byatt

Meaning of "moralising" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MORALISING

moralising  [ˈmɒrəlaɪzɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MORALISING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Moralising is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES MORALISING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

moralising

Morality

Morality is the differentiation of intentions, decisions, and actions between those that are "good" and those that are "bad". Morality can be a body of standards or principles derived from a code of conduct from a particular philosophy, religion, culture, etc., or it can derive from a standard that a person believes should be universal. Morality may also be specifically synonymous with "goodness" or "rightness." Immorality is the active opposition to morality, while amorality is variously defined as an unawareness of, indifference toward, or disbelief in any set of moral standards or principles. Moral philosophy includes moral ontology, or the origin of morals, as well as moral epistemology, or what we know about morals. Different systems of expressing morality have been proposed, including deontological ethical systems which adhere to a set of established rules, and normative ethical systems which consider the merits of actions themselves. An example of normative ethical philosophy is the Golden Rule which states that, "One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself."...

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MORALISING


advertising
ˈædvəˌtaɪzɪŋ
civilizing
ˈsɪvɪlaɪzɪŋ
compromising
ˈkɒmprəmaɪzɪŋ
demoralizing
dɪˈmɒrəlaɪzɪŋ
downsizing
ˈdaʊnsaɪzɪŋ
energizing
ˈenədʒaɪzɪŋ
merchandising
ˈmɜːtʃənˌdaɪzɪŋ
mesmerizing
ˈmɛzməraɪzɪŋ
moralizing
ˈmɒrəlaɪzɪŋ
organizing
ˈɔːɡənaɪzɪŋ
revitalizing
ˌriːˈvaɪtəˌlaɪzɪŋ
rising
ˈraɪzɪŋ
self-fertilising
ˌsɛlfˈfɜːtɪlaɪzɪŋ
self-fertilizing
ˌselfˈfɜːtɪlaɪzɪŋ
sizing
ˈsaɪzɪŋ
socializing
ˈsəʊʃəˌlaɪzɪŋ
surprising
səˈpraɪzɪŋ
tantalizing
ˈtæntəˌlaɪzɪŋ
uncompromising
ʌnˈkɒmprəˌmaɪzɪŋ
uprising
ˈʌpˌraɪzɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MORALISING

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morality
morality play
moralization
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WORDS THAT END LIKE MORALISING

appetising
appraising
below-the-line advertising
bruising
consciousness raising
consciousness-raising
contextual advertising
display advertising
Easter Rising
enterprising
fundraising
hair-raising
housing
practising
promising
raising
self-raising
subliminal advertising
unappetising
unpromising
unsurprising

Synonyms and antonyms of moralising in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «moralising» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MORALISING

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

Translator English - Chinese

说教
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

moralizante
570 millions of speakers

English

moralising
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

moralizing
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المواعظ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

морализаторство
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

moralizante
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

moralizing
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

moralisateur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bermoral
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Moralisieren
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

道徳
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

도덕
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Moralizing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

về đạo đức
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒழுக்கவியல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नैतिकता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ahlakçı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

moralismo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

moralizowania
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

моралізаторство
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

moralizator
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ηθικολογία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

moraliserende
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

moraliserande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

moraliser
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of moralising

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MORALISING»

The term «moralising» is normally little used and occupies the 124.020 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MORALISING» OVER TIME

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

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QUOTES WITH «MORALISING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word moralising.
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A. S. Byatt
I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be rewarded, when in fact it is mostly simply the fact of being the central character that ensures a favourable outcome. Fairy tales are not, on the whole, parables.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MORALISING»

Discover the use of moralising in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to moralising and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Moralising: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
The problem of sanctions is secondary.ndash;Walter LippmannBoredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.ndash;Bertrand Russell Use in Literature MoralisingFor Moses was by ...
‎2008
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Horace in Dialogue: Bakhtinian Readings in the Satires
Moralising satires It is my intention to concentrate - mainly due to space constraints - on the moralising 'voices' of Horatian satire, in other words the relationship between the speakers and their audiences in the moralising satires of Horace ...
Suzanne Sharland, 2010
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The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome
The moralising tone of much Roman literature was found a source of edification in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but has not been so viewed in more recent decades. Scholars now tend to be embarrassed by Roman moralising, ...
Catharine Edwards, 2002
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Beyond Anger: A Study of Juvenal's Third Book of Satires
The speaker's superior attitude and moralising tone is conveyed by the resumption of personal address, although Ponticus is not, admittedly, named. Moreover, the first word of the coda (malo; cf. nolo, the last word) is a 1st person singular ...
Susan H. Braund, Cambridge University Press, 2007
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Education in Conflict
7. The. cohesion. alternative. and. the. risk. of. moralising. Behind the Explanatory Memorandum lies the assumption that bonding is something we can strive for. It is separately available, so to say ...
Ina ter Avest, 2009
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The Troubadours: An Introduction
The chansonniers preserve an important corpus of lyrics which range from didactic and moralising songs to songs containing political comment and personal invective, making this corpus difficult to define. Some texts attack the emerging ...
Simon Gaunt, Sarah Kay, 1999
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Issues in Social Psychology and Conflict Resolution: 2011 ...
(2010 JUN 3) Humboldt University, Berlin: Indirect Moralising-An Ethnographic Exploration of a Procedural Modality “The micro-sociological study explores the form of indirect moralising exemplified in a legal case of murder. How does the ...
‎2012
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Cross-cultural Perspectives on Parliamentary Discourse
(Riksdag debates, 30 November, 2000) Instances of mixed responses, i.e. ironising and moralising responses can sometimes occur in the British Parliament. In such mixed responses, ironising counter-insults may be followed by moralising ...
Paul Bayley, 2004
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Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age
Moralising. A man who moralises is usually a hypocrite. OSCAR WILDE moraliser is a person who seeks to impose upon others his Aview of how they should live and behave. Everyone is entitled to a view about what counts as acceptable ...
A. C. Grayling, 2003
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Citizenship and Indigenous Australians: Changing Conceptions ...
They - 1 should properly say 'we' - belong to that section of the modern middle class closely associated with the new moralising social movements, such as environmentalism, anti-racism and feminism. These moralising liberals tend to be  ...
Nicolas Peterson, Will Sanders, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MORALISING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term moralising is used in the context of the following news items.
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The UK budget: King Canute and the triumph of moralism over morality
George Osborne's emergency budget reveals a government more concerned with moralising than any actual morals. The UK Budget of July ... «Open Democracy, Jul 15»
2
Typecast – or getting to know you
The other books used the kind of prescriptive moralising shown in the Neville example. They labelled white colonialists generally in very ... «Mail & Guardian Online, Jul 15»
3
'Cosby's wealth kept his wife in the dark'
Under oath in a hotel, away from the TV cameras and the soapbox where he did his public moralising, Bill Cosby sketched a very different ... «Yahoo7 News, Jul 15»
4
SIMON WATKINS: Greece's politicians and people need to use …
This entire issue has been poisoned by too much moralising and too much politics. The objectives appear to be either to punish Greeks for ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
5
At last: a Mahabharata novel that's gritty, unsentimental and even …
There is no moralising about good and evil, or suggesting that the Pandavas represent the former and the Kauravas the latter. At the same time, ... «Scroll.in, Jul 15»
6
Kokkinakis confident of giving Aussies a good start in cup tie
After a fortnight of angst, moralising and hand-wringing, Nick Kyrgios's mate stood up and roasted him. End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
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The greatest threat to America? Republicans
... doctrinal purity is more valued than intelligence; tolerance has been supplanted by persecutory moralising; paranoia has replaced realism. «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
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Think again if you believe children in entertainment now are safe …
Aside from any moralising about the good or bad of that, this means that there is no shortage of young people willing to put themselves in the ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
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The smartest robot movie you'll see this year
It was not a moralising, cautionary tale about not messing with God's work. The rules we make about each other really relate fundamentally to ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
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John Glen MP: Stable family and good relationships are at the heart …
... and more specifically marriage, to society concerned they will be interpreted as moralising or judging people who have divorced or cohabit. «Conservative Home, Jul 15»

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