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moral sense

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Noun1.moral sensemoral sense - motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
conscience, scruples, sense of right and wrong
superego - (psychoanalysis) that part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscience
ethical motive, ethics, morals, morality - motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
small voice, voice of conscience, wee small voice - an inner voice that judges your behavior
sense of duty, sense of shame - a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility


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These old legends, so brimming over with everything that is most abhorrent to our Christianized moral sense some of them so hideous, others so melancholy and miserable, amid which the Greek tragedians sought their themes, and moulded them into the sternest forms of grief that ever the world saw; was such material the stuff that children's playthings should be made of
Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Our moral sense learns the manners of good society and smiles when others smile, but when some rude person gives rough names to our actions, she is apt to take part against us.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
I should have mentioned these circumstances to your husband; but he has--you will excuse my saying this so freely--he has NOT your quickness of apprehension or depth of moral sense.
Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context
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