moral superiority
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmoralandsuperiority
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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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superiority
noun[U]
uk/suːˌpɪə.riˈɒr.ə.ti/us/səˌpɪr.iˈɔːr.ə.t̬i/
the fact that one person or thing is better, stronger, etc. ...
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(Definition ofmoralandsuperiorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Perhaps we ought to recognize theirmoralsuperiorityand aspire to emulate their behaviour, but these attitudes seem to fall short of worship.
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While demonstrating the innocence and simplicity of peasant characters, the use of the pastoral mode simultaneously contends for themoralsuperiorityof the rural folk.
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Hasidic women appeal tomoralsuperiorityin their socialization routines with children by investing communal hierarchies of authority with divine legitimacy.
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It conferred prestige and suggestedmoralsuperiority, intellectual ability, modernity, and efficiency.
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Not surprisingly, academic expressions ofmoralsuperiorityhave not been substitutes for anything other than academic expressions ofmoralsuperiority.
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There are mirrors here of nineteenth-century attitudes of amoralsuperiorityof women.
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Others recount his story in terms of his class identications with, and yetmoralsuperiorityto, the gentry.
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Work came to be seen as a source of wealth, but also as a source ofmoralsuperiorityand social identity.
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The establishment of bathhouses was also regarded as being a great step towards the purification of the mind and the achievement ofmoralsuperiority.
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Poverty is lived as an ontological condition which gives people an identity and amoralsuperiorityover the richer classes, who are considered people with no other interest but money.
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In this model, the recognition of working class suffering indicates themoralsuperiorityof the observer over both the sufferers and those who in_ict that suffering.
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On the other hand, as they are eventually forced to recognize defeat all the same, loser nations make a stand for themoralsuperiorityof their case.
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For the exclusive legal positivist, the conventionality of law is compromised whenever the r ule of recognition conditions legal validity on themoralsuperiorityor acceptability of a norm.
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Ghost fiction was, often, stereotypically associated with woman writers, but so, at various times, were prosy domesticity,moralsuperiority, moral turpitude, and just about everything else.
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I return to the point of thismoralsuperioritywhich some people apparently feel manufacturing has over services.
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They seem to have a belief in themoralsuperiorityof the rich over the poor.
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It is not on an issue where any one of us can claim amoralsuperiorityover those who disagree with us.
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That is what one means bymoralsuperiority.
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If he supports those 150 nations and theirmoralsuperiority, why does he not follow them?
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