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# moralise

«moralise» in Mova's school dictionary: **to talk or write about right and wrong, often in a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (moralise, moralises, moralised, moralising; US spelling moralize)

### meaning for a pupil

To moralise is to talk or write about right and wrong, often in a preachy way, drawing a lesson from a story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moralise/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

the tale-teller adds a lesson at the end, showing which act is good and which is bad

### examples

- The teacher moralised about telling the truth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moralise/#x1)
- The old tale moralises: be kind to all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moralise/#x2)
- Don't moralise at me; I know what is right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moralise/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «moralise» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/moralise/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.