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      • Immoral definition: violating moral principles; not conforming to the patterns of conduct usually accepted or established as consistent with principles of personal and social ethics..
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  2. Apr 17, 2002 · descriptively to refer to certain codes of conduct put forward by a society or a group (such as a religion), or accepted by an individual for her own behavior, or. normatively to refer to a code of conduct that, given specified conditions, would be put forward by all rational people.

  3. The meaning of IMMORALITY is the quality or state of being immoral; especially : unchastity.

  4. IMMORALITY definition: 1. behaviour that is morally wrong, or outside society's standards of what is acceptable: 2…. Learn more.

  5. Apr 17, 2002 · “Morality is an informal public system applying to all rational persons, governing behavior that affects others, and has the lessening of evil or harm as its goal.” In order to show that this definition incorporates all of the essential features of morality, I shall explain how the various parts of the definition incorporate these features.

  6. Immoral definition: violating moral principles; not conforming to the patterns of conduct usually accepted or established as consistent with principles of personal and social ethics.. See examples of IMMORAL used in a sentence.

  7. Definitions of immoralism. noun. (philosophy) a system of thought that rejects all ideas of right and wrong and refuses to submit to any law, rule, or duty based on them.

  8. The earliest known use of the noun immorality is in the mid 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for immorality is from around 1566, in a translation by John Alday, translator. immorality is formed within English, by derivation.

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