mores
IPA: mˈɔreɪz
noun
- A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws.
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Examples of "mores" in Sentences
- Michael's ignorance of social mores is the essence of the show.
- Romans used generally, for this idea, the term mores, and hence Cicero and
- Dionisio said the event, which includes a hayride and fires to make s'mores, is the group's biggest fundraiser.
- But my Church, using our institution's religious mores, is happy to perform a "marriage" ceremony for two people of the same gender.
- Later philosophers, examining the principles of republicanism, argued that this sort of constraint by mores is desirable, because it holds behaviour in check more effectively.
- Yet Selig, after doling out World Series rings to the Chicago White Sox Tuesday, said: It's important for somebody who understands what I call the mores of culture of this sport as well as he does.
- If a strong master/apprentice tradition exists, for example, where you're expected to gain a master's consent to teach you, and to "recompense" them with a period of submission to their teachings, if that's what "paying your dues" entails, then disrespecting those mores is disrespecting those sources/influences/teachers by refusing to pay the expected entry fee.
- I am going to read you a little passage which I think you may value because it puts the whole thing in a nutshell; but before I read it I would just say that Bernard Shaw always uses the words "moral" and "immoral" in the classic sense (the Latin word mores meaning customs if I remember right) instead of in the limited vulgar sense, by which we mean that a moral man is merely a man who does not run off with somebody else's wife, and an immoral man is a man who does.
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