Moralizes vs Moralises - What's the difference?
moralizes | moralises |
(moralize)
To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from.
* L'Estrange
* Shakespeare
To furnish with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend a moral to.
* Wordsworth
To render moral; to correct the morals of.
* D. Ramsay
To give a moral quality to; to affect the moral quality of, either for better or worse.
* Sir Thomas Browne
To make moral reflections; to regard acts and events as involving a moral.
(moralise)
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As verbs the difference between moralizes and moralises
is that moralizes is (moralize) while moralises is .moralizes
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(head)moralize
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Verb
- This fable is moralized in a common proverb.
- Did he not moralize this spectacle?
- While chastening thoughts of sweetest use, bestowed / By Wisdom, moralize his pensive road.
- It had a large share in moralizing the poor white people of the country.
- Good and bad stars moralize not our actions.
moralises
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Verb
(head)moralise
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(moralis)Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].}} ----