Definition of "mores" []

• The accepted traditional customs and usages of a particular social group. (noun-plural)
• Moral attitudes. (noun-plural)
• Manners; ways. (noun-plural)

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• "Romans used generally, for this idea, the term mores, and hence Cicero and"
• "Yet Selig, after doling out World Series rings to the Chicago White Sox Tuesday, said: It's important for somebody who understands what I call the mores of culture of this sport as well as he does."
• "I am going to read you a little passage which I think you may value because it puts the whole thing in a nutshell; but before I read it I would just say that Bernard Shaw always uses the words "moral" and "immoral" in the classic sense (the Latin word mores meaning customs if I remember right) instead of in the limited vulgar sense, by which we mean that a moral man is merely a man who does not run off with somebody else's wife, and an immoral man is a man who does."