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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_145568" /> == | |||
<p> (1): </p> <p> (n.) Intent; meaning; moral. </p> <p> (2): </p> <p> (n.) The relation of conformity or nonconformity to the moral standard or rule; quality of an intention, a character, an action, a principle, or a sentiment, when tried by the standard of right. </p> <p> (3): </p> <p> (n.) The doctrines or rules of moral duties, or the duties of men in their social character; ethics. </p> <p> (4): </p> <p> (n.) The practice of the moral duties; rectitude of life; conformity to the standard of right; virtue; as, we often admire the politeness of men whose morality we question. </p> <p> (5): </p> <p> (n.) A kind of allegorical play, so termed because it consisted of discourses in praise of morality between actors representing such characters as Charity, Faith, Death, Vice, etc. Such plays were occasionally exhibited as late as the reign of [[Henry]] VIII. </p> <p> (6): </p> <p> (n.) The quality of an action which renders it good; the conformity of an act to the accepted standard of right. </p> | |||
== Charles Buck Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_20109" /> == | == Charles Buck Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_20109" /> == | ||
<p> Is that relation or proportion which actions bear to a given rule. It is generally used in reference to a good life. [[Morality]] is distinguished from religion thus: "Religion is a studious conformity of our actions to the relations in which we stand to each other in civil society. Morality comprehends only a part of religion; but religion comprehends the whole of morality. Morality finds all her motives here below; religion fetches all her motives from above. The highest principle in morals is a just regard to the rights of men; the first principle in religion is the love of God." The various duties of morality are considered in their respective places in this work. </p> <p> See [[Bishop]] Horsley's Charge, 1790; Paley's and Grove's [[Moral]] Philosophy; Beattie's [[Elements]] of Moral Science; Evans's Sermons on [[Christian]] Temper; Watt's Sermons on Christian Morals; Mason's Christian Morals; H. More's Hints. vol. 2: p. 245; Gisborne's Sermons designed to illustrate and enforce Christian Morality. </p> | <p> Is that relation or proportion which actions bear to a given rule. It is generally used in reference to a good life. [[Morality]] is distinguished from religion thus: "Religion is a studious conformity of our actions to the relations in which we stand to each other in civil society. Morality comprehends only a part of religion; but religion comprehends the whole of morality. Morality finds all her motives here below; religion fetches all her motives from above. The highest principle in morals is a just regard to the rights of men; the first principle in religion is the love of God." The various duties of morality are considered in their respective places in this work. </p> <p> See [[Bishop]] Horsley's Charge, 1790; Paley's and Grove's [[Moral]] Philosophy; Beattie's [[Elements]] of Moral Science; Evans's Sermons on [[Christian]] Temper; Watt's Sermons on Christian Morals; Mason's Christian Morals; H. More's Hints. vol. 2: p. 245; Gisborne's Sermons designed to illustrate and enforce Christian Morality. </p> | ||
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== Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_56657" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_56657" /> == | ||
<p> See Ethics. </p> | <p> See Ethics. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_51459" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_51459" /> == | ||
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<ref name="term_145568"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/morality Morality from Webster's Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_20109"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/charles-buck-theological-dictionary/morality Morality from Charles Buck Theological Dictionary]</ref> | <ref name="term_20109"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/charles-buck-theological-dictionary/morality Morality from Charles Buck Theological Dictionary]</ref> | ||
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<ref name="term_56657"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hastings-dictionary-of-the-new-testament/morality Morality from Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament]</ref> | <ref name="term_56657"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hastings-dictionary-of-the-new-testament/morality Morality from Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament]</ref> | ||
<ref name="term_51459"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/morality Morality from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | <ref name="term_51459"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/morality Morality from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | ||
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