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moral force

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Noun1.moral force - an efficient incentive; "they hoped it would act as a spiritual dynamic on all churches"
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incentive, inducement, motivator - a positive motivational influence
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"Well," she said gaily, "has moral force been applied?
An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, George Bernard View in context
de Chagny, who seemed to have recovered all his moral force from hearing Christine's voice, explained to her, in a few hurried words, the situation in which we and all the Opera were.
The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux, Gaston View in context
There is something so massive, stable, and almost irresistibly imposing in the exterior presentment of established rank and great possessions, that their very existence seems to give them a right to exist; at least, so excellent a counterfeit of right, that few poor and humble men have moral force enough to question it, even in their secret minds.
House Of Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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