"immoralize" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "2008, Omi Intan Naomi, The sound of silence and colors of the wind between the tip of a cigarette and fire of the lighter",
          "text": "Did Ugo immoralize the Javanese shadow-puppets by making them his? Did he deprive them of philosophy? Merely by telling them to don bikinis and to masturbate?",
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          "text": "His conventional Jayhawker morality causes him to immoralize thus regarding the alleged moral breakdown in Europe: “One could imagine that if God thinks war is necessary for the solution of the world's terrible problems, He will have no trouble forgiving these lapses that follow in the wake of war in France. […]",
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          "ref": "1925, Industrial Pioneer - Volumes 3-4, page 26",
          "text": "The preachers decry it; the moralists immoralize it, the critics criticize it as poor entertainment, and the dear public, mind already warped and jared by too much entertainment, looks for a thrill elsewhere.",
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