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{
"term": "morality",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "principles relating to right and wrong or good and bad behaviour",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "matters of **public/private morality**"
},
{
"text": "Standards of morality seem to be dropping."
},
{
"text": "She criticized politicians' standards of personal morality."
},
{
"text": "Should governments be legislating morality?"
},
{
"text": "efforts to strengthen traditional morality"
},
{
"text": "people who wish to impose their morality on other people"
},
{
"text": "A stable society relies on both private and public morality."
},
{
"text": "Do you think standards of morality are falling?"
},
{
"text": "He seems to have no personal morality at all."
},
{
"text": "Ideas of traditional morality are being questioned all the time."
},
{
"text": "Sexual morality should be considered a private matter."
},
{
"text": "The church tried to uphold public morality by censoring books and magazines."
},
{
"text": "Whatever her personal morality, she has no right to judge others."
}
],
"topics": ["Personal qualities"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["conventional", "traditional", "strict"],
"verb + morality": ["legislate", "question", "impose"],
"morality + verb": ["be based on something"],
"phrases": ["standards of morality"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the degree to which something is right or wrong, good or bad, etc. according to moral principles",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "There is a continuing debate on the morality of abortion."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["conventional", "traditional", "strict"],
"verb + morality": ["legislate", "question", "impose"],
"morality + verb": ["be based on something"],
"phrases": ["standards of morality"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a system of moral principles followed by a particular group of people",
"examples": [],
"synonyms": "ethics",
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["conventional", "traditional", "strict"],
"verb + morality": ["legislate", "question", "impose"],
"morality + verb": ["be based on something"],
"phrases": ["standards of morality"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/məˈræləti/",
"audio": "mo/morality/morality__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/məˈræləti/",
"audio": "mo/morality/morality__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French moralite or late Latin moralitas, from Latin moralis, from mos, mor- ‘custom’, (plural) mores ‘morals’."
}