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Ethical

Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or epistles; an ethical system; ethical philosophy.

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Right 84% connected

Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Right 84% connected

Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.

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Ethics 74% connected

The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether tr…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Ethics 74% connected

The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether tr…

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Ethics 66% connected

The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether tr…

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Right 66% connected

Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.

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Right 66% connected

Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.

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Honorable 92% connected

Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious.

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Honourable 92% connected

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Act verb · 78% connection

To behave or conduct, as in morals, private duties, or public offices; to bear or deport one's self; as, we know not why he has acted…

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Antilegomena n. pl. · 78% connection

Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are t…

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Blue superl. · 78% connection

Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals; inculcating an impra…

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Casuistry adjective · 78% connection

Sophistical, equivocal, or false reasoning or teaching in regard to duties, obligations, and morals.

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Correct verb · 78% connection

To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; t…

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Corruption noun · 78% connection

moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy fo…

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Deacon noun · 78% connection

An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholi…

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Degeneracy noun · 78% connection

moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy fo…

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Demoralize verb · 78% connection

To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in moral…

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Depravation noun · 78% connection

moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy fo…

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Depravity noun · 78% connection

moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy fo…

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Dermatologist noun · 78% connection

One who discourses on the skin and its diseases; one versed in dermatology.

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Deuterocanonical adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority; -- said of the Apocrypha, certain Epistles, etc.

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Devout verb · 78% connection

Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religiou…

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Dissertator noun · 78% connection

One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses.

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Dolorous adjective · 78% connection

Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses.

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Epistler noun · 78% connection

A writer of epistles, or of an epistle of the New Testament.

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Ethological a · 78% connection

treating of, or pertaining to, ethnic or morality, or the science of character.

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