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   moralize

   /ˈmɒrəlʌɪz/

   verb

   • 1. comment on issues of right and wrong, typically with an unfounded air of superiority: "the solution to climate change is not to moralize from on high"
   • 2. reform the character and conduct of: "he endeavoured to moralize an immoral society"
   • ▪ interpret or explain as giving lessons on good and bad character and conduct: "mythographers normally moralize Narcissus as the man who wastes himself in pursuing worldly goods"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘explain the moral meaning of’): from French moraliser or medieval Latin moralizare, from late Latin moralis (see moral).

   Derivatives

   • 1. moralization noun
   • 2. moralizer noun

   Scrabble Points: 19

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