Definition of "ethicism" [ethicism]

• The application of ethics. (noun)
• The use of ethics to create competitive advantage in business. (noun)

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• "I will say that I do not feel any guilt, nor have I ever felt guilt about the ethicism of my food choices."
• "You know, Oprah's haughty ethicism I think is a little disingenuous."
• "As for Hawthorne, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, and the others, he now saw how their Puritan instincts had crippled their art—“marred it by the intense ethicism that pervaded the New England mind for two hundred years,” he wrote many years later,9 “and that still characterizes it.”"