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morality play

noun

  1. an allegorical form of the drama current from the 14th to 16th centuries and employing such personified abstractions as Virtue, Vice, Greed, Gluttony, etc.


morality play

noun

  1. a type of drama written between the 14th and 16th centuries concerned with the conflict between personified virtues and vices
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of morality play1

First recorded in 1925–30
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Example Sentences

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It can now represent a librarian, adjunct professor or social worker, all of whom make little more than McDonald’s wages, but are the cultural villains of the great Republican morality play.

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Maybe it’s for the better — but you’ve been missing out on an unlikely morality play about who makes it and who doesn’t in the eternal heartbreak that is Los Angeles.

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Possessing signifiers of a morality play, “The Lehman Trilogy” is, curiously enough, missing a moral center.

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He was mindful that it not turn preachy — it’s not “a cautionary tale, a morality play, nothing like that,” he said.

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Utah’s uniquely fierce commitment to anti-federal sentiment keeps this morality play running endlessly.

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