moralize

moralize englannista suomeksi

1. moralisoida

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moralize englanniksi

1. To make moral reflections (''on, upon,'' ''about'' or ''over'' something); to regard acts and events as involving a moral.

2. 1589, (w), ''Menaphon,'' London: Sampson Clarke, “Arcadia,”http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A02133.0001.001

(..) his Ladie reaching him a Marigold, he began to moralize of it thus merely. I meruaile the Poets that were so prodigall in painting the amorous affection of the Sunne to his Hyacinth, did neuer obserue the relation of loue twixt him and the Marigold:

3. 1741, (w), ''(w),'' London: S. Richardson and J. Osborn,, Volume 3, Letter 8, p.(nbs)38,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004873067.0001.003

(..) I shall not make an unworthy Correspondent altogether; for I can get into thy grave Way, and moralize a little now-and-then:

4. (RQ:Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights)

5. (quote-text)|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5247/5247-h/5247-h.htm|chapter=8

6. {{quote-text|en|year=1991|author=Saul Bellow|chapter=Something to Remember Me By|title=Something to Remember Me By: Three Tales|url=https://archive.org/details/somethingtoremem00bell_0|page=206|publisher=Viking|location=New York

7. To say (something) expressing a moral reflection or judgment.

8. (RQ:Charlotte Bronte Shirley)

9. 1929, (w), “Geraldine and Jane” in ''The Common Reader,'' Second Series, London: The Hogarth Press, 1935, p.(nbs)191,https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.461213

“The more one loves, the more helpless one feels”, she moralised.

10. To render moral; to correct the morals of; to give the appearance of morality to.

11. (quote-text)|title=Erotopaignion, or, The Cyprian Academy|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A31021.0001.001|page=61|location=London

12. (quote-book)|title=The History of South-Carolina: from Its First Settlement in 1670, to the Year 1808|location=Charleston|volume=2|chapter=11|page=449|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008587602

13. {{quote-book|en|year=1940|author=George Orwell|chapter=Charles Dickens|editors=Sonia Orwell; Ian Angus|title=The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell|location=New York|publisher=Harcourt, Brace & World|year_published=1968|volume=1|page=426|url=https://archive.org/details/collectedessaysj00orwe

14. {{quote-book|en|year=1952|author=Aldous Huxley|title=The Devils of Loudun|location=New York|publisher=Harper & Row|chapter=11|page=301|url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20150909/html.php

15. To give a moral quality to; to affect the moral quality of, either for better or worse.

16. 1716, (w), ''(w),'' Part 3, in ''Religio Medici; its sequel Christian Morals,'' London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844, p.(nbs)211,https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008925174

For since good and bad stars moralize not our actions, and neither excuse nor commend, acquit or condemn our good or bad deeds at the present or last bar (..) not celestial figures, but virtuous schemes must denominate and state our actions.

17. {{quote-book|en|year=1927|author=J. B. S. Haldane|chapter=The Time Factor in Medicine|title=Possible Worlds and Other Essays|location=London|publisher=Chatto and Windus|year_published=1930|url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20160325/html.php

18. (quote-book) (w): Translated into English rhyming verse with Introduction and Notes|location=London|publisher=George Allen & Unwin|section=Preface, p. 9|url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20110335/html.php

19. {{quote-text|en|year=1978|author=Susan Sontag|title=Illness as Metaphor|url=https://archive.org/details/illnessasmetapho00susa|chapter=6|page=43|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|location=New York

20. To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from.(w), ''Glossographia,'' London: George Sawbridge, 1661: “''Moralize'' (..) to expound morally, to give a moral sence unto.”http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28464.0001.001(w), ''An English Dictionary,'' London: Peter Parker, 1677: “''Moralize,'' to give the ''Moral sence of a thing,''”http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A33754.0001.001

21. (RQ:Shakespeare As You Like It)

22. (quote-text)|title=The Psalmes of David from the New Translation of the Bible Turned into Meter|location=London|publisher=Humphrey Moseley|section=Preface|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A27830.0001.001

23. (RQ:L'Estrange Fables)

24. (RQ:Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield)

25. {{quote-book|en|year=1781|author=Thomas Warton|chapter=The History of English Poetry|location=London|publisher=J. Dodsley|title=et al.|section=Volume 3, Section 43, pp. 498-499|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004896806.0001.003

26. To supply with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend a moral to.

27. {{quote-book|en|year=1793|author=William Wordsworth|chapter=Pleasures of the Pedestrian|title=Poems by William Wordsworth: including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author|location=London|publisher=Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown|year_published=1815|volume=1|page=70|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001428213