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didactic
Used or intended for teaching or instruction
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  1. Used or intended for teaching or instruction
  2. Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry)
  3. (Medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.
moral
Of or concerned with the judgment of right or wrong of human action and character:
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  1. Of or concerned with the judgment of right or wrong of human action and character:
  2. Having psychological rather than physical or tangible effects:
  3. Teaching or exhibiting goodness or correctness of character and behavior:
Find another word for moralizing. In this page you can discover 4 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for moralizing, like: didactic, didactical, moral and teach.

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  • It is a moralizing tract, but contains some interesting anecdotes about contemporaries.

  • The Report of the five bishops divides them into three schools: (1) the moralizing school, the oldest, by which - as in the case of St Jerome's treatment of the Jewish vestments - the vestments are explained as typical of the virtues proper to those who wear them; (2) the Christological school, i.e.

  • The first volume of his most famous work, the immortal story - partly adventure, partly moralizing - of The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, was published on the 25th of April 1719.

  • So far then, Midrash tends to include moralizing history, whether we call it narrative or romance, attached to names and events, and it is obviously exemplified whenever there are unmistakable signs of untrustworthy amplification and of some explicit religious or ethical aim colouring the narrative.

  • Neither of these methods could do much for the historical understanding of the phenomena of prophecy as a whole, and the more liberal students of the Old Testament were long blinded by the moralizing unhistorical rationalism which succeeded the old orthodoxy.

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