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Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
sense of right and wrong — noun motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person s thoughts and actions • Syn: ↑conscience, ↑scruples, ↑moral sense • Hypernyms: ↑ethical motive, ↑ethics, ↑morals, ↑morality … Useful english dictionary
sense of duty — noun a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility • Syn: ↑sense of shame • Hypernyms: ↑conscience, ↑scruples, ↑moral sense, ↑sense of right and wrong … Useful english dictionary
sense of shame — noun a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility • Syn: ↑sense of duty • Hypernyms: ↑conscience, ↑scruples, ↑moral sense, ↑sense of right and wrong … Useful english dictionary
right — As a noun, and taken in an abstract sense, means justice, ethical correctness, or consonance with the rules of law or the principles of morals. In this signification it answers to one meaning of the Latin jus, and serves to indicate law in the… … Black's law dictionary
wrong*/*/*/ — [rɒŋ] adj I 1) if there is something wrong, there is a problem You don t look well. Is anything wrong?[/ex] I checked the engine, but I couldn t find anything wrong.[/ex] There was something wrong with one of the tyres.[/ex] She had some blood… … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
right — / rīt/ n [Old English riht, from riht righteous] 1 a: qualities (as adherence to duty or obedience to lawful authority) that together constitute the ideal of moral propriety or merit moral approval b: something that is morally just able to… … Law dictionary
Id, ego and super-ego — For other uses of ego and id, see Ego (disambiguation) and ID (disambiguation). Superego redirects here. For the Superego Podcast, see Superego Podcast. Structural model redirects here. For structural models in economics, see Economic model. For… … Wikipedia
The Phoenix and the Carpet — Infobox Book | name = The Phoenix and the Carpet title orig = translator = image caption = Cover of the Puffin Classics edition of The Phoenix and the Carpet author = Edith Nesbit cover artist = illustrator = H. R. Millar country = United Kingdom … Wikipedia
moral sense — noun motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person s thoughts and actions • Syn: ↑conscience, ↑scruples, ↑sense of right and wrong • Hypernyms: ↑ethical motive, ↑ethics, ↑morals, ↑morality … Useful english dictionary
Flight and expulsion of Germans from Poland during and after World War II — The flight and expulsion of Germans from Poland after World War II was part of a series of flights and expulsions of Germans from Europe during and after World War II. Germans fled and were expelled from all regions which are currently within the … Wikipedia