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n. (context ethics English) A written, formal, and consistent set of rules prescribing righteous behavior, accepted by a person or by a group of people.
Usage examples of "moral code".
Your moral code has reached its climax, the blind alley at the end of its course.
I told them the nature of the game you were playing and the nature of that moral code of yours, which they had been too innocently generous to grasp.
Here again, the encyclical confirms my statement, though from the viewpoint of a moral code which is the opposite of mine.
That was why this moral code of abstinence and ignorance was utterly irresponsible.
Then, a last shred of his rigid moral code exerted itself, and he tried to leave her a way out.
John's alienation led him to set up his own self-centered moral code.
As the sun went dawn she broke out of a point-by-point condemnation of Slab's moral code to assault Cheese Danish # 56, charging at it with windmilling nails.
They believe that information has an almost mystical power of free flow and self-replication, as water seeks its own level or sparks fly upward- and lacking any moral code, they confuse inevitability with Right.
Maureen, a moral code for the tribe must be based on survival for the tribe.
The night riders might come knocking at his door and spirit him away to be flogged and perhaps tarred and feathered for such crimes as neglecting to attend church or a disrespectful attitude toward the movement or any fancied slip from the stern moral code of the brethren which might occur to the fanatical intolerant mind of a Crusader.
I was operating purely on instinct, answering some moral code that I couldn’.