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n. - A doctrine that the discipline dealing with what is good and related ideas are valid and important.

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  • His ethicism often led him to moralize
  • You know, Oprah's haughty ethicism I think is a little disingenuous.
  • I will say that I do not feel any guilt, nor have I ever felt guilt about the ethicism of my food choices.
  • So far as it was imperfect -- and great and beautiful as it was, I think it had its imperfections -- it was marred by the intense ethicism that pervaded the
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