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1. pluralplural onlyA set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws.

   The country's traditional mores have sparked recent ideological battles, as well as a few national embarrassments.

   2013 May 3, Dean Van Nguyen, “Why Ireland Has Lagged Behind the Rest of Europe on Reproductive Rights”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2016

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   All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense. And to prefer a society in which the individual has holistic relationships with a few, rather than modular relationships with many, is to wish for a return to the imprisonment of the past — a past when individuals may have been more tightly bound to one another, but when they were also more tightly regimented by social conventions, sexual mores, political and religious restrictions.

   1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, page 99

   It is relevant here to recall that the word “morality” is derived from mos with its plural mores, and that in its present usage it has not lost this connexion with the mores — the rules of behaviour — of a society.

   1973, Philippa Foot, “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values”, in Robert C. Solomon, Garden City, New York, editors, Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 165

   Even as the elements of a culture were forming, as legends began to accrue, as their mastery of programming started to surpass any previous recorded levels of skill, the dozen or so hackers were reluctant to acknowledge that their tiny society, on intimate terms with the TX-0, had been slowly and implicitly piecing together a body of concepts, beliefs, and mores.

   1984, Steven Levy, chapter 2, in Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

   The one area where sexual mores seem to have changed is gay relationships. At the beginning of 2004, only 46 percent of respondents thought gay sex should be legal; in another poll that year, only 42 percent of people said they saw it as morally acceptable or believed that same-sex marriage should be legal.

   2014 June 9, Emma Green, “Americans: Still Pretty Judge-y”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2016

   For example, although not originally written with teenagers specifically in mind, the founding father of psychodynamic theory Sigmund Freud's assertion that the libido was one of the most powerful and natural of human needs has been viewed by some as contributing to an endorsement and legitimization of teenagers' wish to explore and test society's mores and limits.

   2019, Kairen Cullen, The Psychology of Parenting Teenagers, page 15

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