Adjective

(en adjective)

Concerning or relating to politics, the art and process of governing.

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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01

, author=Philip E. Mirowski, volume=100, issue=1, page=87, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits , passage=In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.}}

*{{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation

, passage=That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past.}}

Concerning a polity or its administrative components.

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(label) Motivated, especially inappropriately, by political (electoral or other party political) calculation.

Of or relating to views about social relationships that involve power or authority.

(label) Interested in politics.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.

* Nathaniel Hawthorne

She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness.

Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.

* Sir M. Hale

the wiser and more moral part of mankind

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}

Capable of right and wrong action.

Probable but not proved.

Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will.