"moralize" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "1589, Robert Greene, Menaphon, London: Sampson Clarke, “Arcadia,”\n[…] his Ladie reaching him a Marigold, he began to moralize of it thus merely. I meruaile the Poets that were so prodigall in painting the amorous affection of the Sunne to his Hyacinth, did neuer obserue the relation of loue twixt him and the Marigold:"
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          "text": "1741, Samuel Richardson, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, London: S. Richardson and J. Osborn,, Volume 3, Letter 8, p. 38,\n[…] I shall not make an unworthy Correspondent altogether; for I can get into thy grave Way, and moralize a little now-and-then:"
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          "ref": "1991, Saul Bellow, “Something to Remember Me By”, in Something to Remember Me By: Three Tales, New York: Viking, page 206",
          "text": "I depended on Philip now, for I had nothing, not even seven cents for carfare. I could be certain, however, that he wouldn’t moralize at me, he’d set about dressing me, he’d scrounge a sweater among his neighborhood acquaintances […]",
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          "text": "1929, Virginia Woolf, “Geraldine and Jane” in The Common Reader, Second Series, London: The Hogarth Press, 1935, p. 191,\n“The more one loves, the more helpless one feels”, she moralised."
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          "ref": "1647, Robert Baron, Erotopaignion, or, The Cyprian Academy, London, page 61",
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          "text": "Let gratefull Aromatick odours burne,\nLet pious incense smoake, for the returne\nOf Great Flaminius, in whom abide\nMore Art, then raised Athens to her pride,\nMore civill Ethicks he containe, then may",
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          "ref": "1809, David Ramsay, chapter 11, in The History of South-Carolina: from Its First Settlement in 1670, to the Year 1808, volume 2, Charleston, page 449",
          "text": "In estimating the value of cotton, its capacity to excite industry among the lower classes of people […] is of high importance. It has had a large share in moralizing the poor white people of the country.",
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          "ref": "1940, George Orwell, “Charles Dickens”, in Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus, editors, The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, volume 1, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, published 1968, page 426",
          "text": "He sees the idiocy of an educational system founded on the Greek lexicon and the wax-ended cane; on the other hand, he has no use for the new kind of school that is coming up in the ’fifties and ’sixties, the “modern” school, with its gritty insistence on “facts”. What, then, does he want? As always, what he appears to want is a moralised version of the existing thing—the old type of school, but with no caning, no bullying or underfeeding, and not quite so much Greek.",
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          "ref": "1952, Aldous Huxley, chapter 11, in The Devils of Loudun, New York: Harper & Row, page 301",
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          "text": "1716, Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, Part 3, in Religio Medici; its sequel Christian Morals, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844, p. 211,\nFor since good and bad stars moralize not our actions, and neither excuse nor commend, acquit or condemn our good or bad deeds at the present or last bar […] not celestial figures, but virtuous schemes must denominate and state our actions."
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          "ref": "1927, J. B. S. Haldane, “The Time Factor in Medicine”, in Possible Worlds and Other Essays, London: Chatto and Windus, published 1930",
          "text": "The attempts which are made in such [school] courses [on ‘hygiene’] to make as many physiological phenomena as possible point a moral, and to suppress the rest, are reminiscent of the analogous attempts to moralize zoology which were made by the authors of mediaeval bestiaries.",
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          "text": "He makes no attempt to moralize his gods or to pass any moral judgement upon them.",
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          "ref": "1978, Susan Sontag, chapter 6, in Illness as Metaphor, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 43",
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          "ref": "1654, Henry King, The Psalmes of David from the New Translation of the Bible Turned into Meter, London: Humphrey Moseley, Preface",
          "text": "[…] where the Place is obscure, and the Construction difficult, I take leave by paraphrase to give the Meaning: which is a method of times observed by the Septuagint, whose Version Moralizeth in the Greek, what was wrapp’d up in figures by the Hebrew.",
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          "roman": "By Wisdom, moralize his pensive road.",
          "text": "Kind Nature’s charities his steps attend,\nIn every babbling brook he finds a friend,\nWhile chast’ning thoughts of sweetest use, bestowed",
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          "text": "Let gratefull Aromatick odours burne,\nLet pious incense smoake, for the returne\nOf Great Flaminius, in whom abide\nMore Art, then raised Athens to her pride,\nMore civill Ethicks he containe, then may",
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          "text": "He sees the idiocy of an educational system founded on the Greek lexicon and the wax-ended cane; on the other hand, he has no use for the new kind of school that is coming up in the ’fifties and ’sixties, the “modern” school, with its gritty insistence on “facts”. What, then, does he want? As always, what he appears to want is a moralised version of the existing thing—the old type of school, but with no caning, no bullying or underfeeding, and not quite so much Greek.",
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          "text": "The attempts which are made in such [school] courses [on ‘hygiene’] to make as many physiological phenomena as possible point a moral, and to suppress the rest, are reminiscent of the analogous attempts to moralize zoology which were made by the authors of mediaeval bestiaries.",
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