adj.
  - concerned with the principles of right and wrong behaviour. 
▸examining the nature of ethics and the foundations of good and bad character:
 moral philosophers.
 - based on or adhering to the code of behaviour that is considered socially right or acceptable.
 
n.
  - a lesson that can be derived from a story or experience.
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(morals)
 standards of behaviour, or principles of right and wrong.
 
 
  Derivative
  
  Etymology
  ME: from L. moralis, from mos, mor- ‘custom’, (pl.) mores ‘morals’.