Definition of morality
- n. - The relation of conformity or nonconformity to the moral
standard or rule; quality of an intention, a character, an action, a
principle, or a sentiment, when tried by the standard of right.
- n. - The quality of an action which renders it good; the
conformity of an act to the accepted standard of right.
- n. - The doctrines or rules of moral duties, or the duties of
men in their social character; ethics.
- n. - The practice of the moral duties; rectitude of life;
conformity to the standard of right; virtue; as, we often admire the
politeness of men whose morality we question.
- n. - A kind of allegorical play, so termed because it
consisted of discourses in praise of morality between actors
representing such characters as Charity, Faith, Death, Vice, etc. Such
plays were occasionally exhibited as late as the reign of Henry VIII.
- n. - Intent; meaning; moral.