Definition of "moralized" [moralized]

• Present participle of moralize. (verb)

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• "Men are to be moralized, that is, by developing in them those motives to action which Pascal had regarded with particular horror (Pensées, 142) — the desire to avoid public reprobation and to win public esteem."
• "There, too, we met a match for sighing Orlando, -- mirrored in the water; there, too, some diluted Jaques may have "moralized" the excursion for next day's "Courier," and some lout of a Touchstone (there are always such in picnics) passed the ices, made poor puns, and won more than his share of the smiles."
• "If the writer has not "moralized," it was because the true life, seen with the living eye, is better than any precept, however skilfully it may be dressed by the rhetorical genius of the moralist."