From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmoralitymo‧ral‧i‧ty /məˈræləti/●くろまる○しろまる○しろまる noun [uncountable]1GOOD/MORALbeliefs or ideas about what is right and wrong and about how people should behavesexual moralitypublic/private/personal moralitythe decline in standards of personal moralityThe authorities are protectors of public morality.conventional/traditional moralitya lack of concern for conventional morality2GOOD/MORALthe degree to which something is right or acceptableOPP immoralitymorality ofa discussion on the morality of abortionExamples from the Corpusmorality• Gilligan sees this as a morality of responsibility that stands apart from the morality of rights underlying Kohlberg's conception.• Christianmorality• Yet we have already noted how, in terms of poeticjustice for instance, fabliau morality is often conventional in precisely these terms.• This implies that there is a principle apart from morality on which morality itself can be founded.• Prosperity, tranquility, honesty, morality, decency, normality and on-time airlinearrivals do not make news.• Men had all the power in the state and therefore made both its laws and its morality.• He would learn morality by observing people's reactions when he performedunsocial actions; but he would never be punished.• Anyone who carried out such an attack obviously has no morality whatsoever.• The doublestandard of moralityrelied upon this separation between the public and the private.• Some leaders have blamedtelevision for the decline in standards of morality.• Victoriancommentators were very concerned about public morality generally.• I think we should question the morality of turning away refugees.public/private/personal morality• Prior to the 1830s, personal morality had not been seen as necessary for political eminence.• In directcriticism of Wolfenden, he argues that one can not make a simpledistinction between public and private morality.• Civicinstitutions were therefore the public expression of private morality.• I choose that name to show its connection to a parallelideal of personal morality.• I say this for Depardieu's own good-and in the interests of public morality.• The Town Council was then, as now, very strict in the matter of public morality.• This suggests that the privatization of personal morality is well on its way.• This is where the recenthistory of law's withdrawal from the regulation of private morality provides a usefulperspective.