moralize

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To make moral reflections (on, upon, about or over something); to regard acts and events as involving a moral.

   “1741, Samuel Richardson, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, London: S. Richardson and J. Osborn,, Volume 3, Letter 8, p. 38, […] I shall not make an unworthy Correspondent altogether; for I can get into thy grave Way, and moralize a little now-and-then:”

2. fiil To say (something) expressing a moral reflection or judgment.

   ““Unless I heard the whole repeated, I cannot continue it,” she said. / “Yet it was quickly learned, ‘soon gained, soon gone,’” moralized the tutor.”

3. fiil To render moral; to correct the morals of; to give the appearance of morality to.

   “Let gratefull Aromatick odours burne, Let pious incense smoake, for the returne Of Great Flaminius, in whom abide More Art, then raised Athens to her pride, More civill Ethicks he containe, then may Well moralize all sauage India.”

4. fiil To give a moral quality to; to affect the moral quality of, either for better or worse.

   “The attempts which are made in such [school] courses [on ‘hygiene’] to make as many physiological phenomena as possible point a moral, and to suppress the rest, are reminiscent of the analogous attempts to moralize zoology which were made by the authors of mediaeval bestiaries.”

5. fiil To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from.

   “Did he not moralize this spectacle?”

6. fiil To supply with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend a moral to.

   “Kind Nature’s charities his steps attend, In every babbling brook he finds a friend, While chast’ning thoughts of sweetest use, bestowed By Wisdom, moralize his pensive road.”