MORALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does morally mean? 

• MORALLY (adverb)
  The adverb MORALLY has 2 senses:

1. with respect to moral principles

2. in a moral manner

  Familiarity information: MORALLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MORALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With respect to moral principles

Context example:

morally unjustified

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a moral manner

Synonyms:

morally; virtuously

Context example:

he acted morally under the circumstances

Antonym:

immorally (without regard for morality)

 Context examples 

But what I want you to be, Trot, resumed my aunt, —I don't mean physically, but morally; you are very well physically—is, a firm fellow.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I suppose that you will admit that the action is morally justifiable, though technically criminal.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the point is, they sound the popular note, and they sound it so beautifully and morally and contentedly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It is, to be sure; and when you get to Bitternutt Lodge, Connaught, Ireland, I shall never see you again, Jane: that's morally certain.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"I don't complain near as much as the others do, and I shall be more careful than ever now, for I've had warning from Susie's downfall," said Amy morally.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This research shows for the first time that healthy thin people are generally thin because they have a lower burden of genes that increase a person’s chances of being overweight and not because they are morally superior, as some people like to suggest.

(Slim people have a genetic advantage when it comes to maintaining their weight, University of Cambridge)

It must have been this, I suppose, that stirred in my soul that tempest of impatience with which I listened to the civilities of my unhappy victim; I declare, at least, before God, no man morally sane could have been guilty of that crime upon so pitiful a provocation; and that I struck in no more reasonable spirit than that in which a sick child may break a plaything.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It is morally impossible.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But if I were sure they were raving—as I am morally certain one, at least, of them is down with fever—I should leave this camp, and at whatever risk to my own carcass, take them the assistance of my skill.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Since it is morally justifiable, I have only to consider the question of personal risk.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)