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Definition of Moralising
1. moralise [v] - See also: moralise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moralising
Literary usage of Moralising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"In Thomson, still more in his French disciples, didactic and moralising passages
are inserted at stated intervals among the landscapes and field sports ..."
2. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1904)
"... from the accession of James I. down to the period when Lyndsay began to write,
presented striking materials to the imagination of a moralising poet. ..."
3. Diderot and the Encyclopædists by John Morley (1897)
"Diderot is always ready to fling away his proper subject in a burst of moralising.
The article on Man, as a branch of natural history, contains a correct if ..."
4. Diderot and the Encyclopædists by John Morley (1884)
"Diderot is always ready to fling away his proper subject in a burst of moralising.
The article on Man, as a branch of natural history, contains a correct if ..."
5. Los Gringos: Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in by Henry Augustus Wise (1849)
"While moralising one night we are nearly impaled.—Our Little Housekeeper.—Pita.—Fandango
d« la Tripa, Where a Lepero abstracts our Sword and Pistols. ..."
6. Diderot and the Encyclopœdists by John Morley (1878)
"Diderot is always ready to fling away his proper subject in a . burst of moralising.
... moralising ..."
7. The Truth of the Christian Religion by Julius Kaftan (1894)
"Introduction—The relation of Religion, Science, and Morality in Greek Philosophy—The
Logos Idea—The rationalistic moralising mode of thought and the ..."
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