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Definition of Ethic

1. Noun. The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group. "A person with old-fashioned values"

2. Noun. A system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct.

Definition of Ethic

1. a. Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or epistles; an ethical system; ethical philosophy.

Definition of Ethic

1. Adjective. Moral, relating to morals. ¹

2. Noun. a set of principles of right and wrong behaviour guiding, or representative of, a specific culture, society, group, or individual. ¹

3. Noun. the morality of an action ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ethic

1. a body of moral principles [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ethic

etherize etherized etherizer etherizers etherizes etherizing etherlike ethernet ethernet cable etherol

etheromania etheromaniac etheromaniacs ethers ethiazide ethic (current term) ethic dative ethic datives ethic of reciprocity ethical

ethical Ten Commandments ethical code ethical dative ethical drug ethical investment ethical motive ethical system ethicalities ethicality ethically

Literary usage of Ethic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Preventing Deadly Conflict edited by David A. Hamburg, Cyrus R. Vance (1998)
"The principles expressed in this global ethic can be affirmed by all persons with ethical convictions, whether religiously grounded or not. ..."

2. Manual of Political Ethics: Designed Chiefly for the Use of Colleges and by Francis Lieber, Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1876)
"Our ethic Character is inalienable, hence our Responsibility likewise. ... Various ethic Systems. XX. SUPERIOR intellect, peculiarly expansive and refinable ..."

3. An Introduction to Social Ethics: The Social Conscience in a Democracy by John Moffatt Mecklin (1920)
"THE RISE OF A SECULAR ethic A secular ethic, or a body of ethical norms ... This secular ethic has gradually emancipated itself from the dominance of the ..."

4. Theological Propædeutic: A General Introduction to the Study of Theology by Philip Schaff, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1893)
"But he subordinates ethic to Politic, and finds the realization of the moral ideal ... Christian ethic or Moral Theology is the science of Christian life. ..."

5. Manual of Political Ethics, Designed Chiefly for the Use of Colleges and by Francis Lieber, Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1876)
"Our ethic Character is inalienable, hence our Responsibility likewise. ... Various ethic Systems. XX. SUPERIOR intellect, peculiarly expansive and refinable ..."

6. The Theory of Practice: An Ethical Enquiry, in Two Books by Shadworth Hollway Hodgson (1870)
"But to point out this element precisely is a matter which depends The special on analysis of the phenomena of consciousness, an ana- scope oí ethic. ..."

7. A History of Modern Philosophy: A Sketch of the History of Philosophy from by Harald Høffding (1908)
"(f) ethic and Theory of Politics It is characteristic of Spinoza that while his thought has a practical motive, yet it soars high above the world of ..."

8. The Anti-alcohol Movement in Europe by Ernest Barron Gordon (1913)
"VII " ethic and Alcoholism " : A lecture ' by Professor TG Masaryk of ... Self-determination and self-control are the great demands of the modern ethic and ..."

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