moral
concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,595 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 11,398 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles moral sensea moral scrutiny
- psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect a moral victorymoral support
noun
- the significance of a story or event also: lesson the moral of the story is to love thy neighbor
moral in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The moral of the tale was to be kindness to animals.
In the Wilderness · Charles Dudley Warner · Chapter 1
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As moral essays, the Ramblers deeply stirred some readers and bored others.
The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two · Samuel Johnson · Chapter 1
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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At last I yielded, for the drink had rotted out all my moral sense.
The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story · H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard · Chapter 1
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He liked mathematics, and was wont to say jocosely that an abstract computation had a fine moral effect, favouring unselfishness.
The Crown of Life · George Gissing · Chapter 1