Значение

значений: 6
  1. (непереходный)To make moral reflections (on, upon, about or over something); to regard acts and events as involving a moral.

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

    1929, Virginia Woolf, “Geraldine and Jane” in The Common Reader, Second Series, London: The Hogarth Press, 1935, p. 191, “The more one loves, the more helpless one feels”, she moralised.

  3. (переходный)To render moral; to correct the morals of; to give the appearance of morality to.

  4. (переходный)To give a moral quality to; to affect the moral quality of, either for better or worse.

  5. (устаревшее, переходный)To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from.

  6. (устаревшее, переходный)To supply with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend a moral to.

Ещё определения
  • improve the morals of
  • interpret the moral meaning of
  • speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements

Примеры

предложений: 3
  1. Your moralizing makes me want to puke.

  2. Don't give some moralizing discourse.

  3. The story of Grasshopper Green is full of lively humor and emphasizes the virtues of kindness and generosity without moralizing.

Происхождение

From Old French moraliser, equivalent to moral + -ize.

From Old French moraliser, equivalent to moral + -ize.

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Формы

moralizes, moralizing, moralized, moralized
Базовая формаmoralize · to moralize
3-е лицо ед. числаmoralizes
Причастие настоящего времениmoralizing
Прошедшее времяmoralized
Причастие прошедшего времениmoralized

правильный · Урок

Present simpleУрок

I, you, we, theymoralize
he, she, itmoralizes

Past simpleУрок

все лицаmoralized

Present perfectУрок

I, you, we, theyhave moralized
he, she, ithas moralized

Future simple (will)Урок

все лицаwill moralize

Синонимы

синонимов: 5
to make moral judgements on:judgeA1
Близкие по смыслу

Однокоренные

связанных слов: 11

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