noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
moral
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Without imperial authority to reinforce its moral precepts , it increasingly relied on high-minded exhortation.
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He took words and ideas seriously and felt that having accepted a moral precept he had to live it.
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And consequently their history consisted of events and lives which carried moral and political precept: of incidents loaded with an interpretation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Accordingly, this book shines a spotlight on the Centralism precepts, and on the practices they yield.
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And even for the prevailing types most precepts prove transitory.
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Every question was considered in light of the King's conscience and of divine precepts.
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He took words and ideas seriously and felt that having accepted a moral precept he had to live it.
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In other words we would have been better off cashing the precept and keeping the money under the mattress.
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Slaveholders fostered misery amongst their slaves; they clearly did not act upon the precept of loving their neighbours.
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Use of the equation is based on the precept that particles are dominantly spheres and are of identical densities.
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When one embraces the precepts of Centralism it can lead in no other direction than organizing big.