ˈmȯrəˌlizəm, ˈmär- noun
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1.
a. : the habit or practice of moralizing
before he had slipped into transcendentalism and moralism and complacency in mediocrity — George Santayana
b. : an instance of moralizing : a conventional moral attitude or saying
the traditional moralism of melodrama — the idea of Virtue Triumphant — E.R.Bentley
his brain was clogged with moralisms, inchoate poetry, and unclear ambitions — H.S.Canby
2. : the practice of morality as distinct from religion : the doctrine or practice of religion reduced to morality
make out a case for activism and moralism as the fundamental American heresy — Review of Religion