Meaning

adjective concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles

noun the significance of a story or event

adjective psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect

originFrom Middle English moral, from Old French moral, from Latin mōrālis (“relating to manners or morals”) (first used by Cicero, to translate Ancient Greek ἠθικός (ēthikós, “moral”)), from mos…

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