MORAL OBLIGATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does moral obligation mean? 

• MORAL OBLIGATION (noun)
  The noun MORAL OBLIGATION has 1 sense:

1. an obligation arising out of considerations of right and wrong

  Familiarity information: MORAL OBLIGATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MORAL OBLIGATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An obligation arising out of considerations of right and wrong

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

he did it out of a feeling of moral obligation

Hypernyms ("moral obligation" is a kind of...):

duty; obligation; responsibility (the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force)

 Context examples 

Being now in her twenty-first year, Maria Bertram was beginning to think matrimony a duty; and as a marriage with Mr. Rushworth would give her the enjoyment of a larger income than her father's, as well as ensure her the house in town, which was now a prime object, it became, by the same rule of moral obligation, her evident duty to marry Mr. Rushworth if she could.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)