moral lesson

collocation in English

meaningsofmoralandlesson

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moral
adjective
uk
/ˈmɒr.əl/us
/ˈmɔːr.əl/
relating to the standards of good or bad behaviour, fairness, honesty, etc. that each person believes in, rather than ...
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lesson
noun[C]
uk
/ˈles.ən/us
/ˈles.ən/
a period of time in which a person is taught about a subject or how to ...
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(Definition ofmoralandlessonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Some ancient authors were content to observe order without deducing from it amorallesson.
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Themorallessonis clear and simple: stick to the virtuous high road, shun its bad ideological twin.
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The final words can also be seen as a commentary on the length of anymorallesson.
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It is a moral tale with amorallessonthat young female readers, one might imagine, would abhor.
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Physiologus is structured allegorically, with every animal used to teach amorallesson.
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One way to read that solution is as amorallessonabout the necessity for the sanctified or legitimated - and thus non-diseased - union of male and female.
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Is it a goodmorallessonthat the interests of a group of individuals should depend on how well they can work the 'pluralism' of ethnic politics?
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I let thismorallessonstand by itself.
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Themorallessonof this should be that humanitarian aid without a realistic foreign policy makes no sense: the two go hand in hand.
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And it is the fact that usually in these television stories virtue does triumph, after all; so there is amorallessonin the story.
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But that story had amorallesson.
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Secondly, onemorallessonhas emerged from the whole of this discussion, and it is this.
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To say that the greatmorallessonis being wasted is to offer a very incomplete observation on the events of the past twelve months.
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I think that there is amorallessonto be drawn from it too.
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There should be amorallessonto be learnt from the number of attendees compared with the attendance when we debated smoking.
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One of the angels is holding a sign in his hand preaching amorallesson: lo and behold, the way a just man dies.
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Every week had a differentmorallesson.
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All the action that would appear to carry some sort ofmorallessonis in fact overshadowed by the entertainment the novel warrants.
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Santera initiates use the short fables to teach and illustrate amorallessonto followers.
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Cory also participates in crazy situations in which he learns amorallessonand will most likely get punished.
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