Meanings
present singular third person moralises · participle present moralising · participle past moralised · past moralised
- UKnonstandardNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of moralize.
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].
2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36
Synonyms & antonyms
verbspeak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Old Frenchmoraliser
- Englishmoralise
From Old French moraliser, equivalent to moral + -ise.
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