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Definition of Moralistic
1. Adjective. Narrowly and conventionally moral.
Definition of Moralistic
1. Adjective. Characteristic of or relating to a narrow-minded concern of the morals of others; self-righteous ¹
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Definition of Moralistic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moralistic
Literary usage of Moralistic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth Century by Martha Pike Conant (1908)
"CHAPTER II THE moralistic GROUP IP among the imaginative tales there are some
that approach the moralistic, on the other hand there are among the moralistic ..."
2. A History of Aesthetic by Bernard Bosanquet (1904)
"In other words, it follows that morally the representations of art moralistic I.
If artistic representation is related to man 1 Plato, Sophist, 266 D. Ar., ..."
3. Recent Advances in Theistic Philosophy of Religion by James Lindsay (1897)
"It cannot be said to be wanting in just and intense admiration of what Kant did
for the moralistic theory of religion, which he held we must guard as the ..."
4. The Idea of God in the Light of Recent Philosophy: The Gifford Lectures by Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison (1920)
"The world we know is a ' moralistic and epic kind of universe ', the hall-mark
of which is progress through effort. Absolutism alone, he admits, ..."
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