moralism

n. 道德主义, 格言, 说教

发音

UK /ˈmɒɹəlɪzm/
其它

词形变化

moralisms 复数 moralisms

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The act or practice of moralizing (making moral reflections or judging the morality of others).

    贬义 不可数

    1937, Helen Foster Snow (as Nym Wales), “The Modern Chinese Literary Movement” in Edgar Snow (ed.), Living China: Modern Chinese Short Stories, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, p. 337, The Romantic movement […] struggled for ‘art for art’s sake’ against the old moralism and didacticism […]

    2011, Donald Weinstein, Savonarola: The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet, New Haven: Yale University Press, Chapter 1, p. 8, Reared by conventionally pious parents, Girolamo also imbibed more than a little of his grandfather’s dour moralism along with his Latin lessons, Bible studies, and Saint Thomas.

  2. 2.

    A maxim or saying believed by the speaker to embody a moral truth; an instance of moralizing.

    可数 贬义 不可数
  3. 3.

    Religious practice that focuses on morality while placing little emphasis on doctrine or the metaphysical; adherence to a system of morality with little or no reference to religion.

    过时 不可数

词汇关系

词源

From French moralisme.

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