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What does moralize mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word moralize? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from.
  2. (transitive) To supply with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend a moral to.
  3. (transitive) To render moral; to correct the morals of.
  4. (transitive) To give a moral quality to; to affect the moral quality of, either for better or worse.
  5. (intransitive) To make moral reflections; to regard acts and events as involving a moral.
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At Nuremberg, Rundstedt interpreted his military role as being to execute orders to the best of his ability, but never to moralize to his superior.
We will not stop the reader to moralize on this disastrous event.
If I do not moralize as I go along, I shall not have a chance to do it any where else.
Usually silent and absorbed, it was not his gift to moralize or declaim.
Instead, Comte sought to moralize one and all, a cure for humanity not for one class at the expense of another.
So he watched the woman gravely, and began to moralize with all his might.

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