moralisation

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code
noun the act of making moral (or more moral)

His moralisation, moreover, is not entirely his own affair. — A history of economic doctrines : $b from the time of the physiocrats to the present day, Charles Gide
He busied himself with great questions: the social problem, moralisation of the poorer classes, pisciculture, caoutchouc, railways, etc. — Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
But the genius of English fiction was still loaded with the chains of allegory and pedantic moralisation; and in the Gesta Romanorum, the most popular collection of English prose stories which had been translated from the Latin at the end of the fifteenth century, 'human beings are mere puppets, inhabiting the great fabric of mediæval thought and mediæval institution.... — Studies in Literature and History, Alfred C., Sir Lyall

moralizing, moralization

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