MORALLY


Meaning of MORALLY in English

-rəlē, -li adverb

Etymology: Middle English, from moral (I) + -ly

1. : from the point of view of moral rules or principles : in terms of accepted moral standards

if public administration is morally bad but legally sound — Sydney (Australia) Bulletin

2. : according to reason or probability : virtually

there is precise record of so many East Asiatic junks reaching the Pacific coast … during the past hundred years that its having happened again and again in preceding centuries is morally certain — A.L.Kroeber

3. : with respect to the mental and psychological as distinguished from the physical

helped her, morally rather than physically, to rise — Arnold Bennett

morally and physically exhausted

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