mores
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English [edit]
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Etymology [edit]
From the Latin mōrēs (“ways, character, morals”), the plural of mōs.
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ˈmɔː.reɪz/
Noun [edit]
mores (plural only)
- A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws.
- 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, pg. 99:
- All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense. And to prefer a society in which the individual has holistic relationships with a few, rather than modular relationships with many, is to wish for a return to the imprisonment of the past—a past when individuals may have been more tightly bound to one another, but when they were also more tightly regimented by social conventions, sexual mores, political and religious restrictions.
- 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, pg. 99:
Translations [edit]
a set of accepted moral norms or customs
Anagrams [edit]
French [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Adjective [edit]
mores m pl and f pl
- plural of more
Anagrams [edit]
Latin [edit]
Noun [edit]
mōrēs
Portuguese [edit]
Verb [edit]
mores
- Second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of morar
- Second-person singular (tu) negative imperative of morar
Spanish [edit]
Verb [edit]
mores (infinitive morar)
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