NOUN
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the act of making moral (or more moral)
for years she worked toward the moralization of English literature -
indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code
his constant moralizing drove me mad
How To Use moralisation In A Sentence
- Emphasising that the issue concerns India's "self-respect", Prasad said the government's handling of the issue is sending out a "wrong message" and causing "demoralisation" in the country. Daily News & Analysis
- In the case of a male prostitute, says Benedict, using a condom to reduce the risk of HIV infection "can be a first step in the direction of moralisation, a first assumption of responsibility, on the way toward recovering an awareness that not everything is allowed and that one cannot do whatever one wants". Pope Benedict says that condoms can be used to stop the spread of HIV
- Neil MuirShrewsbury• I wonder whether our political leaders have studied the words of Petronius in 200BCE Editorial, 21 February: "Reorganisation is a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation. Letters: More Danish yarns
- But clearly, we have a major and endemic problem of professional de-moralisation, in every sense. The retreat from Scutari
- Developing countries' monitoring systems can suffer from a variety of problems, including demoralisation in the institutions that oversee them because of low pay, high stress and lack of resources.
- That last sentence in particular registers a serious demoralisation and also political degeneration.
- He busied himself with great questions: the social problem: moralisation of the poorer classes, pisciculture, caoutchouc, railways, etc. Madame Bovary
- People have failed to realize that the sense of the world behind classical Confucian literary moralisation began to weaken since the time of Emperor Wu.
- This has caused a loss of role and purpose amongst MPs, causing a profound de-moralisation (in every sense) which has in turn created the breeding ground for corruption. The danger of the wrong kind of revolution
- Economic hardship and popular demoralisation may create social and political instabilities which are more formidable threats to the regime than war with South Korea.
