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Ethic   /ˈɛθɪk/   Listen
Ethic

noun
1.
The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group.  Synonyms: moral principle, value-system, value orientation.  "A person with old-fashioned values"
2.
A system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct.  Synonym: ethical code.





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"Ethic" Quotes from Famous Books



... the profounds of his being that had been compounded ere man was man, and while he was becoming man, when he, first of all animals, regarded himself with an introspective eye and laid the beginnings of morality in foundations of nightmare peopled by the monsters of his own ethic- thwarted desires. ...
— The Red One • Jack London


Words linked to "Ethic" :   system of rules, Chartism, value orientation, precept, principle, double standard, system


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