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moral obligation

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Noun1.moral obligation - an obligation arising out of considerations of right and wrong; "he did it out of a feeling of moral obligation"
duty, obligation, responsibility - the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force; "we must instill a sense of duty in our children"; "every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"- John D.Rockefeller Jr
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We have observed the disposition to retaliation excited in Connecticut in consequence of the enormities perpetrated by the Legislature of Rhode Island; and we reasonably infer that, in similar cases, under other circumstances, a war, not of PARCHMENT, but of the sword, would chastise such atrocious breaches of moral obligation and social justice.
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
This sounded exceedingly liberal--to ask ONLY $100 for that for which there was a sort of moral obligation to ask $120
Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
It was a remarkably fine day; and he had not turned the matter over in his mind ten minutes, when he was suddenly stricken filial and affectionate; and it occurred to him so strongly that he ought to go down and see his father, and pay his duty to his mother-in-law, that he was lost in astonishment at his own remissness in never thinking of this moral obligation before.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context
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