reˈmoralize, v.
[re- 5 b.]
trans. To make moral again; to re-instil with morals. So reˌmoraliˈzation.
| 1967 Guardian 16 Oct. 6/5 Violence and pain still provide an evil satisfaction which the remoralisation of sex has not yet exorcised. 1974 Daily Tel. 21 Oct. 6/8 We are able to remoralise whole groups and classes of people, undoing the harm done..by permissiveness in television, in films, on bookstalls. Ibid. 21 Oct. 6/8 We shall need intellectual as well as moral courage to grapple with the dilemmas inherent in the remoralisation of public life. |