His ethicism often led him to moralize.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

You know, Oprah's haughty ethicism I think is a little disingenuous.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2006] Reference

I will say that I do not feel any guilt, nor have I ever felt guilt about the ethicism of my food choices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Worth Every Flinch] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship] Reference

He had his whole being in his belief; it had not only liberated him from the bonds of the Calvinistic theology in which his youth was trammelled, but it had secured him against the conscious ethicism of the prevailing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship] Reference

I do not forget the fictions of Doctor Holmes, or the vivid inventions of Doctor Hale, but I do not call them novels; and I do not forget the exquisitely realistic art of Miss Jewett or Miss Wilkins, which is free from the ethicism of the great New England group, but which has hardly the novelists's scope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship] Reference

“a bad expression” — among which he includes “ethicism,”.    From Wordnik.com.  [HISTORICISM] Reference