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moralize |
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moralize or -ise Verb [-izing, -ized] or -ising, -ised 1. to discuss or consider something in the light of one's own moral beliefs, esp. with disapproval 2. to interpret or explain in a moral sense 3. to improve the morals of
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When he tired of this amusement he would go to the mummies and moralize over them. Mary was obliged to mix more with the world, but she could still moralize over every morning visit; and as she was no longer mortified by comparisons between her sisters' beauty and her own, it was suspected by her father that she submitted to the change without much reluctance. There was one little weazen, dried-apple-faced old woman, who took occasion to doubt the constancy of husbands in such circumstances of bereavement; and there was another lady (with a lap-dog) old enough to moralize on the lightness of human affections, and yet not so old that she could help nursing the baby, now and then, or laughing with the rest, when the little woman called it by its father's name, and asked it all manner of fantastic questions concerning him in the joy of her heart. |
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