morale (moral)

[Intended for F. moral, m., mental or moral condition, confused with mo rale, f., morality, good conduct, From a date much earlier than the day when Cæsar, defeated at Dyrrachium, gained the empire of the world by so acting as to restore the morale of his army before the great contest at Pharsalia, it has been on this nice feeling of the moral pulse of armies that the skill of great commanders has chiefly depended. Encyc. Brit . , XXIV. 343. moralert (mor'al-er), n. [ moral , v ., + -er1.] A moralizer; a moralist. Come, you are too severe a moraler . etc. Shak., Othello, ii. 3. 301. moralisation, moralise, etc. See moralization , [ moral + -ism.] moralism (mor'al-izm), n . 1. A moral maxim or saying; moral counsel or advice; moral sermonizing; inculcation of morality. [Rare.] Accustomed as he was to the somewhat droning moral isms of his "congenial friends." Farrar , Julian Home, xx. 2. The practice of morality as distinct from religion; the absorption of religion in mere morality. The first thing that disclosed to Dr. Chalmers the futility of the moralism which was all the religion he had when he began his pastorate at Kilmany was the discovery that it could not bear the scrutiny of the sick-bed. A. Phelps , My Study, p. 301.