Crossword-Solution: MORALISM 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Moralism n. A maxim or saying embodying a moral truth.

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Aesop's foible? 1 answer
Ethical practice 1 answer
Excessive righteousness 1 answer
Righteousness to a fault 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with MORALISM (5)

Pluralistic moralism simply makes their teeth chatter, it refrigerates the very heart within their breast.
Pragmatism William James 2004
Religion in the sense of self-surrender, and moralism in the sense of self-sufficingness, have been pitted against each other as incompatibles frequently enough in the history of human thought.
Pragmatism William James 2004
The narrow theological spirit, the moralism _à tout propos_, the queer provincialities and pruderies, are mere wild weeds in a mountain of flowers.
Italian Hours Henry James 2004
Their authors pass from physiological sensualism to moralism, from imitation of nature to finalism, and to transcendental mysticism, without consciousness of the incongruity of their theses, at variance each with itself.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 2005
For the empiricists of Aesthetic, intellectualism and moralism represent progress; for the intellectualists, hedonistic and moralistic alike, agnosticism is progress and may be called Kant.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 2005

Quotes with MORALISM (3)

Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism.
Alain de Botton Status Anxiety
The central feature of the practice of meditation and hard work known as Zen is that, as Matthiessen says, it “has no patience with mysticism, far less the occult.” Nor does it have any time with moralism, the prescriptions or distortions we would impose on the world, obscuring it from our view. It asks, it insists rather, that we take this moment for what it is, undistracted, and not cloud it with needless worries of what might have been or fantasies of what might come to be…
Peter Matthiessen The Snow Leopard
The gospel of Jesus Christ is an offense to both religion and irreligion. It can't be co-opted by either moralism or relativism.
Timothy J. Keller King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (1997–2021).