Definition of "moralise" [moralise]

• Alternative spelling of moralize. (verb)

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• "France is keen to pull its weight in the fight against tax havens, which president Nicolas Sarkozy has championed as a crucial part of a drive to "moralise" capitalism in the wake of the global crisis."
• "For some parents, there may be feelings of hypocrisy – those who came of age in the cocaine-snorting 80s, or acid house 90s, may be disinclined to moralise."
• "There is one section in your letter which almost provokes me to moralise for an hour, but as I am not writing a sermon, I will only say that for any one and, may I say, particularly a young lady to evince perfect happiness in their situation, and be sensible of Heaven's blessings, is a gigantic step gain'd in the school of human life."