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Moralize   /mˈɔrəlˌaɪz/   Listen
verb
Moralize  v. t.  (past & past part. moralized; pres. part. moralizing)  
1.
To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from. "This fable is moralized in a common proverb." "Did he not moralize this spectacle?"
2.
To furnish with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend a moral to. "While chastening thoughts of sweetest use, bestowed By Wisdom, moralize his pensive road."
3.
To render moral; to correct the morals of. "It had a large share in moralizing the poor white people of the country."
4.
To give a moral quality to; to affect the moral quality of, either for better or worse. "Good and bad stars moralize not our actions."


Moralize  v. i.  
1.
To make moral reflections; to regard acts and events as involving a moral.
2.
To lecture to a person in a manner asserting moral principles.
Synonyms: sermonize, preachify, moralise.





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"Moralize" Quotes from Famous Books



... his views was doubled. It is easy to moralize about the misfortunes of others, and to find good in the evil that they suffer;—only a true philosopher could speak thus lightly of his ...
— The House Behind the Cedars • Charles W. Chesnutt
... excessive obstinacy, misguided ambition, and perversity of judgment, is simply incalculable. The subsequent course of the narrative will be found to fully bear out these reflections, and to point a moral even where there is no intention to moralize. ...
— The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion, Volume 1 • John Charles Dent
... I could moralize exceedingly well this morning on the vanity of human wishes and expectations, and the folly of hoping for felicity in this vile sublunary world: but the subject is a little exhausted, and I have a passion for being original. I think all the moral writers, ...
— The History of Emily Montague • Frances Brooke
... judge would say, 'upon which, if one seek to moralize, he must do so with an eye to them. It is terrible that one creature should so regard another, should make it conscience to abhor an entire race. It is terrible; but is it surprising? Surprising, that one should hate a race which he believes to be red from a cause akin to that which makes ...
— The Confidence-Man • Herman Melville
... realized how rapidly I was drifting, I found myself whirling down the swift current, and was lost. Nor was it a marvel that this should have so happened. To one who sits aloof in his unromantic, distant home, it is an easy thing, indeed, to moralize about matters of inferior station and mesalliance; but I believe that few could have seen little Jessie, as she first appeared to me, and not have felt some secret inclination to give way before those subtile charms of beauty and manner ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 9 • Various


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