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n. A body of unwritten social mores and conventions which serve to maintain societal order.
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Moral order may refer to :
- Moral order is the name given to the conservative and monarchic French government of Patrice de Mac-Mahon in the late 19th century.
- Moral order is the name given to Immanuel Kant's rendering of the metaphysical argument from morality.
Usage examples of "moral order".
The third function of a living mythology is to validate, support, and imprint the norms of a given, specific moral order, that, namely, of the society in which the individual is to live.
The imposed moral order held precedence over the claims of both truth and love.
Such chips of thought as he could distinguish told him that the ideas he heard were of a high moral order, the ones he had always accepted, and therefore no evil could come to him from that, no evil could be intended.
Charles Sumner faced audiences of the new school, which upheld the institution as a righteous moral order.
It was the misfortune of that age that there was no firm moral order to counter the restiveness and upheaval engendered by the tremendously rapid increase in the human population.
What remnants there were of such a moral order were suppressed by the contemporary sloganizing.
If these two factors seem incompatible to the student of feminine psychology, it must be remembered that Gerty had always been a parasite in the moral order, living on the crumbs of other tables, and content to look through the window at the banquet spread for her friends.