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moral sense
noun
- the ability to determine the rightness or wrongness of actions.
Word History and Origins
Origin of moral sense1
Example Sentences
Our moral sense is grounded in intuition, not reason, Gray argues, and in perception rather than objective reality.
“If this decision does not outrage the moral sense of the country, then nothing will,” FDR’s Interior secretary, Harold Ickes, wrote in his diary.
Now, the Dignitas Infinita declaration calls abortion an "extremely dangerous crisis of the moral sense" and says that surrogacy is a "violation" of both the woman and the child.
Associate Justice William W. Bedsworth wrote on behalf of the district court that its role was “not to render judgment in a moral sense, but only as to the legal issues raised.”
If the election was stolen, then stealing it back makes moral sense.
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