Adj. exempt, free, immune, at liberty, scot-free; released &c. v.; unbound, unencumbered; irresponsible, unaccountable, not answerable; excusable.
Phr. bonis nocet quisquis pepercerit malis [Lat][Syrus].
<-- M9.3.2 Moral Sentiments (R928 to R938)
relocated to M8.3.1.2 Judgmental emotions regarding people -->
M9.3.2 Moral Sentiments (R928 to R938)
[ref: M8.3.1.2 Judgmental emotions regarding people ].
M9.3.3 Moral Conditions (R939 to R952) [[morality]]
<-- actually moral attributes of people
939. Probity 940. Improbity
941. Knave
942. Disinterestedness 943. Selfishness
944. Virtue 945. Vice
946. Innocence 947. Guilt
Note: 948. Good Man and R949. Bad Man to character
P2.3.2.3.2.5.21 Good MAn R948, P2.3.2.3.2.5.22 Bad MAn R949
&& these following should be under actions
950. Penitence 951. Impenitence
952. Atonement
#939. Probity. -- N. probity, integrity, rectitude; uprightness &c. adj.; honesty, faith; honor; bonne foi[Fr], good faith, bona fides[Lat]; purity, clean hands.
fairness &c. adj.; fair play, justice, equity, impartiality, principle, even-handedness; grace.
constancy; faithfulness &c. adj.; fidelity, loyalty; incorruption, incorruptibility.
trustworthiness &c. adj.; truth, candor, singleness of heart; veracity &c. 543; tender conscience &c. (sense of duty) 926.
punctilio, delicacy, nicety; scrupulosity, scrupulousness &c. adj.; scruple; point, point of honor; punctuality.
dignity &c, (repute) 873; respectability, respectableness &c. adj; gentilhomme[Fr], gentleman; man of honor, man of his word; fidus Achates[Lat][obs3], preux chevalier[Fr], galantuomo[It]; truepenny[obs3], trump, brick; true Briton; white man * [U.S.].
court of honor, a fair field and no favor; argumentum ad verecundiam[Lat].
V. be honorable &c. adj.; deal honorably, deal squarely, deal impartially, deal fairly; speak the truth &c. (veracity) 543; draw a straight furrow; tell the truth and shame the Devil, vitam impendere vero[Lat]; show a proper spirit, make a point of; do one's duty &c. (virtue) 944.
redeem one's pledge &c. 926; keep one's promise, be as good as one's promise, be as good as one's word; keep faith with, not fail.
give and take, audire alteram partem[Lat], give the Devil his due, put the saddle on the right horse.
redound to one's honor.
Adj. upright; honest, honest as daylight; veracious &c. 543; virtuous &c. 944; honorable; fair, right, just, equitable, impartial, evenhanded, square; fair and aboveboard, open and aboveboard; white * [U.S.].
constant, constant as the northern star; faithful, loyal, staunch; true, true blue, true to one's colors, true to the core, true as the needle to the pole; "marble-constant" [Antony and Cleopatra]; true-hearted, trusty, trustworthy; as good as one's word, to be depended on, incorruptible.
straightforward &c. (ingenuous) 703; frank, candid, open-hearted.
conscientious, tender-conscienced, right-minded; high-principled, high-minded; scrupulous, religious, strict; nice, punctilious, correct, punctual; respectable, reputable; gentlemanlike[obs3].
inviolable, inviolate; unviolated[obs3], unbroken, unbetrayed; unbought, unbribed[obs3].
innocent &c. 946; pure, stainless; unstained, untarnished, unsullied, untainted, unperjured[obs3]; uncorrupt, uncorrupted; undefiled, undepraved[obs3], undebauched[obs3]; integer vitae scelerisque purus [Lat][Horace]; justus et tenax propositi [Lat][Horace].
chivalrous, jealous of honor, sans peur et sans reproche[Fr]; high-spirited.
supramundane[obs3], unworldly, other-worldly, overscrupulous[obs3].
Adv. honorable &c. adj.; bona fide; on the square, in good faith, honor bright, foro conscientiae[Lat], with clean hands.
Phr. "a face untaught to feign" [Pope]; bene qui latuit bene vixit [Lat][Ovid]; mens sibi conscia recti[Lat]; probitas laudatur et alget [Lat][obs3][Juvenal]; fidelis ad urnam[Lat]; "his heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth" [Two Gentlemen]; loyaute m'oblige[Fr]; loyaute n'a honte[Fr]; "what stronger breastplate than a heart untainted?" [Henry VI].
#940. Improbity. -- N. improbity[obs3]; dishonesty, dishonor; deviation from rectitude; disgrace &c. (disrepute) 874; fraud &c. (deception) 545; lying &c. 544; bad faith, Punic faith; mala fides[Lat], Punica fides[Lat]; infidelity; faithlessness &c. adj.; Judas kiss, betrayal.
breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of faith; prodition[obs1], disloyalty, treason, high treason; apostasy &c. (tergiversation) 607; nonobservance &c. 773.
shabbiness &c. adj.; villainy, villany[obs3]; baseness &c. adj.; abjection, debasement, turpitude, moral turpitude, laxity, trimming, shuffling.
perfidy; perfidiousness &c. adj.; treachery, double dealing; unfairness &c. adj.; knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play; jobbing, jobbery; graft, bribery; venality, nepotism; corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction; barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose; mouth honor &c. (flattery) 933.
{{trait_of: Knave , R941, P2.3.2.3.2.4.16 }}.
V. be dishonest &c. adj.; play false; break one's word, break one's faith, break one's promise; jilt, betray, forswear; shuffle &c. (lie) 544; live by one's wits, sail near the wind.
disgrace oneself, dishonor oneself, demean oneself; derogate, stoop, grovel, sneak, lose caste; sell oneself, go over to the enemy; seal one's infamy.
Adj. dishonest, dishonorable; unconscientious, unscrupulous; fraudulent &c. 545; knavish; disgraceful &c. (disreputable) 974; wicked &c. 945.
false-hearted, disingenuous; unfair, one-sided; double, double-hearted, double-tongued, double-faced; timeserving[obs3], crooked, tortuous,insidious, Machiavelian, dark, slippery; fishy; perfidious, treacherous, perjured.
infamous, arrant, foul, base, vile, ignominious, blackguard.
contemptible, unrespectable, abject, mean, shabby, little, paltry, dirty, scurvy, scabby, sneaking, groveling, scrubby, rascally, pettifogging; beneath one.
low-minded, low-thoughted[obs3]; base-minded.
undignified, indign[obs1]; unbecoming, unbeseeming[obs3], unbefitting; derogatory, degrading; infra dignitatem [Latin: beneath one's dignity]; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unknightly[obs3], unchivalric[obs3], unmanly, unhandsome; recreant, inglorious.
corrupt, venal; debased, mongrel.
faithless, of bad faith, false, unfaithful, disloyal; untrustworthy; trustless, trothless[obs3]; lost to shame, dead to honor; barratrous.
Adv. dishonestly &c. adj.; mala fide[Lat], like a thief in the night, by crooked paths.
Int. O tempora[obs3]! O mores! [Cicero].
Phr. corruptissima respublica plurimae leges [Lat][Tacitus].
<-- R941 Knave relocated to Character, P2.3.2.3.2.4.16
.. -->
#942. Disinterestedness. -- N. disinterestedness &c. adj.; generosity; liberality, liberalism; altruism; benevolence &c. 906; elevation, loftiness of purpose, exaltation, magnanimity; chivalry, chivalrous spirit; heroism, sublimity.
self-denial, self-abnegation, self-sacrifice, self-immolation, self-control &c. (resolution) 604; stoicism, devotion, martyrdom, suttee.
labor of love.
V. be disinterested &c. adj.; make a sacrifice, lay one's head on the block; put oneself in the place of others, do as one would be done by, do unto others as we would men should do unto us.
Adj. disinterested; unselfish; self-denying, self-sacrificing, self-devoted; generous.
handsome, liberal, noble, broad-minded; noble-minded, high-minded; princely, great, high, elevated, lofty, exalted, spirited, stoical, magnanimous; great-hearted, large-hearted; chivalrous, heroic, sublime.
unbought, unbribed[obs3]; uncorrupted &c. (upright) 939.
Phr. non vobis solum[Lat].
#943. Selfishness. -- N. selfishness &c. adj.; self-love, self-indulgence, self-worship, self-interest; egotism, egoism; amour propre[Fr],&c. (vanity) 880; nepotism.
worldliness &c. adj.; world wisdom.
illiberality; meanness &c. adj.
time-pleaser, time-server; tuft-hunter, fortune-hunter; jobber, worldling; egotist, egoist, monopolist, nepotist; dog in the manger, charity that begins at home; canis in praesepi[Lat], "foes to nobleness," temporizer, trimmer.
V. be selfish &c. adj.; please oneself, indulge oneself, coddle oneself; consult one's own wishes, consult one's own pleasure; look after one's own interest; feather one's nest; take care of number one, have an eye to the main chance, know on which side one's bread is buttered; give an inch and take an ell.
Adj. selfish; self-seeking, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-centered; wrapped up in self, wrapt up in self[obs3], centered in self; egotistic, egotistical; egoistical[obs3].
illiberal, mean, ungenerous, narrow-minded; mercenary, venal; covetous &c. 819.
unspiritual, earthly, earthly-minded; mundane; worldly, worldly-minded; worldly-wise; timeserving[obs3].
interested; alieni appetens sui profusus[Lat].
Adv. ungenerously &c. adj.; to gain some private ends, from interested motives.
Phr. apres nous le deluge[Fr].
#944. Virtue. -- N. virtue; virtuousness &c. adj.; morality; moral rectitude; integrity &c. (probity) 939; nobleness &c. 873.
morals; ethics &c. (duty) 926; cardinal virtues.
merit, worth, desert, excellence, credit; self-control &c. (resolution) 604; self-denial &c. (temperance) 953.
well-doing; good actions, good behavior; discharge of duty, fulfillment of duty, performance of duty; well-spent life; innocence &c. 946.
V. be virtuous &c. adj.; practice virtue &c.n.; do one's duty, fulfill one's duty, perform one's duty, discharge one's duty; redeem one's pledge, keep one's promise &c. 926; act well, act one's part; fight the good fight; acquit oneself well; command one's passions, master one's passions; keep in the right path.
set an example, set a good example; be on one's good behavior, be on one's best behavior.
Adj. virtuous, good; innocent &c. 946; meritorious, deserving, worthy, desertful[obs3], correct; dutiful, duteous; moral; right, righteous, right-minded; well-intentioned, creditable, laudable, commendable, praiseworthy; above all praise, beyond all praise; excellent, admirable; sterling, pure, noble; whole-souled[obs3].
exemplary; matchless, peerless; saintly, saint-like; heaven-born, angelic, seraphic, godlike.
Adv. virtuously &c, adj.; e merito[Lat].
Phr. esse quam videri bonus malebat [Lat][Sallust]; Schonheit vergeht Tugend besteht[Ger]; "virtue the greatest of all monarchies" [Swift]; virtus laudatur et alget [Lat][obs3][Juvenal]; virtus vincit invidiam[Lat].
#945. Vice. -- N. vice; evil-doing, evil courses; wrongdoing; wickedness, viciousness &c. adj.; iniquity, peccability[obs3], demerit; sin, Adam[obs2]; old Adam[obs3], offending Adam[obs3].
immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals; enphagy[obs3], dophagy[obs3], exophagy[obs3]; want of principle, want of ballast; obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity[obs3], depravity, pollution; hardness of heart; brutality &c. (malevolence) 907; corruption &c. (debasement) 659; knavery &c. (improbity) 940[obs3]; profligacy; flagrancy, atrocity; cannibalism; lesbianism, Sadism.
infirmity; weakness &c. adj.; weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection; error; weak side; foible; failing, failure; crying sin, besetting sin; defect, deficiency; cloven foot.
lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den[obs3]; gusto picaresco[It].
fault, crime; criminality &c. (guilt) 947.
sinner &c. 949.
[Resorts] brothel &c. 961; gambling house &c. 621; joint*, opium den, shooting gallery, crack house.
V. be vicious &c. adj.; sin, commit sin, do amiss, err, transgress; misdemean oneself[obs3], forget oneself, misconduct oneself; misdo[obs3], misbehave; fall, lapse, slip, trip, offend, trespass; deviate from the line of duty, deviate from the path of virtue &c. 944; take a wrong course, go astray; hug a sin, hug a fault; sow one's wild oats.
render vicious &c. adj.; demoralize, brutalize; corrupt &c. (degrade) 659.
Adj. vicious[1]; sinful; sinning &c.v.; wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal; naughty, incorrect; unduteous[obs3], undutiful.
unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores[Lat], indecorous, unseemly, improper; dissolute, profligate, scampish; unworthy; worthless; desertless[obs3]; disgraceful, recreant; reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable; discreditable, disreputable; Sadistic.
base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous[obs1], felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous; flagrant, flagitious; atrocious, incarnate, accursed.
Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike[obs3], hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish.
miscreated[obs3], misbegotten; demoralized, corrupt, depraved.
evil-minded, evil-disposed; ill-conditioned; malevolent &c. 907; heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless; abandoned, lost to virtue; unconscionable; sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity.
incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for; culpable, reprehensible &c. (guilty) 947.
unjustifiable; indefensible, inexcusable; inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible[obs3].
weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect; indiscrete; demoralizing, degrading.
Adv. wrong; sinfully &c. adj.; without excuse.
Int. O tempora[obs3]! O mores!
Phr. alitur vitium vivitque tegendo [Lat][obs3][Vergil]; genus est mortis male vivere [Lat][Ovid]; mala mens malus animus [Lat][Terence]; nemo repente fuit turpissimus[Lat]; "the trail of the serpent is over them all" [Moore]; "to sanction vice and hunt decorum down" [Bryon].
[Note 1 - Most of these adjectives are applicable both to the act and to the agent.].
#946. Innocence. -- N. innocence; guiltlessness &c. adj.; incorruption, impeccability.
clean hands, clear conscience, mens sibi conscia recti [Lat][Vergil].
innocent, lamb, dove.
V. be innocent &c. adj; nil conscire sibi nulla pallescere culpa [Lat][Horace].
acquit &c. 970; exculpate &c. (vindicate) 937.
Adj. innocent, not guilty; unguilty[obs3]; guiltless, faultless, sinless, stainless, bloodless, spotless; clear, immaculate; rectus in curia[Lat]; unspotted, unblemished, unerring; undefiled &c. 939; unhardened[obs3], Saturnian; Arcadian &c. (artless) 703[obs3].
inculpable, unculpable[obs3]; unblamed, unblamable[obs3]; blameless, unfallen[obs3], inerrable[obs3], above suspicion; irreproachable, irreprovable[obs3], irreprehensible[obs3]; unexceptionable, unobjectionable, unimpeachable; salvable[obs3]; venial &c. 937.
harmless; inoffensive, innoxious[obs3], innocuous; dove-like, lamb-like; pure, harmless as doves; innocent as a lamb, innocent as the babe unborn; "more sinned against than sinning" [Lear].
virtuous &c. 944; unreproved[obs3], unimpeached, unreproached[obs3].
Adv. innocently &c. adj.; with clean hands; with a clear conscience, with a safe conscience.
Phr. murus aeneus conscientia sana [Lat][obs3][Horace].
#947. Guilt. -- N. guilt, guiltiness; culpability; criminality, criminousness[obs3]; deviation from rectitude &c. (improbity) 940[obs3]; sinfulness &c. (vice) 945.
misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed; malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression; dereliction, delinquency; indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas[Fr], peccadillo; flaw, blot, omission; failing, failure; break, bad break [obs2], capital crime, delictum[Lat].
offense, trespass; misdemeanor, misfeasance, misprision; malefaction, malfeasance, malversation; crime, felony.
enormity, atrocity, outrage; deadly sin, mortal sin; "deed without a name" [Macbeth].
corpus delicti.
Adj. guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable[obs3], in fault, at fault, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable[obs3]; weighed in the balance and found wanting; exceptionable.
Adv. in flagrante delicto[Lat]; red-handed, in the very act, with one's hand in the cookie jar.
Phr. cui prodest scelus in fecit [Lat][Seneca]; culpam paena premit comes [Lat][Horace]; "O would the deed were good!" [Richard II]; "responsibility prevents crimes" se judice nemo nocens absolvitur [Lat][Burke;][Juvenal]; "so many laws argues so many sins" [Paradise Lost].
<-- 948 good man and 949 bad man to person
P2.3.2.3.2.5.21 Good MAn R948, P2.3.2.3.2.5.22 Bad MAn R949
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#950. Penitence. -- N. penitence, contrition, compunction, repentance, remorse; regret &c. 833.
self-reproach, self-reproof, self-accusation, self-condemnation, self-humiliation; stings of conscience, pangs of conscience, qualms of conscience, prickings of conscience[obs3], twinge of conscience, twitch of conscience, touch of conscience, voice of conscience; compunctious visitings of nature[obs3].
acknowledgment, confession &c. (disclosure) 529; apology &c. 952; recantation &c. 607; penance &c. 952; resipiscence[obs2].
awakened conscience, deathbed repentance, locus paenitentiae[Lat], stool of repentance, cuttystool[obs3].
penitent, repentant, Magdalen, prodigal son, "a sadder and a wiser man" [Coleridge].
V. repent, be sorry for; be penitent &c. adj.; rue; regret &c. 833; think better of; recant &c. 607; knock under &c. (submit) 725; plead guilty; sing miserere[Lat], sing de profundis[Lat]; cry peccavi; own oneself in the wrong; acknowledge, confess &c, (disclose) 529; humble oneself; beg pardon &c. (apologize) 952; turn over a new leaf, put on the new man, turn from sin; reclaim; repent in sackcloth and ashes &c, (do penance) 952; learn by experience.
Adj. penitent; repenting &c.v.; repentant, contrite; conscience-smitten, conscience-stricken; self-accusing, self-convicted.
penitential, penitentiary; reclaimed, reborn; not hardened; unhardened[obs3].
Adv. mea culpa.
Phr. peccavi; erubuit[Lat]; salva res est [Lat][Terence]; Tu l'as voulu[Fr], Georges Dandin; "and wet his grave with my repentant tears" [Richard III].
#951. Impenitence. -- N. impenitence, irrepentance[obs3], recusance[obs3]; lack of contrition.
hardness of heart, seared conscience, induration, obduracy.
V. be impenitent &c. adj.; steel the heart, harden the heart; die game, die and make no sign, die unshriven, die without benefit of clergy.
Adj. impenitent, uncontrite, obdurate; hard, hardened; seared, recusant; unrepentant; relentless, remorseless, graceless, shriftless[obs3].
lost, incorrigible, irreclaimable.
unreconstructed, unregenerate, unreformed; unrepented[obs3], unreclaimed[obs3], unatoned.
#952. Atonement. -- N. atonement, reparation; compromise, composition; compensation &c. 30; quittance, quits; expiation, redemption, reclamation, conciliation, propitiation; indemnification, redress.
amends, apology, amende honorable[obs3], satisfaction; peace offering, sin offering, burnt offering; scapegoat, sacrifice.
penance, fasting, maceration, sackcloth and ashes, white sheet, shrift, flagellation, lustration[obs3]; purgation, purgatory.
V. atone, atone for; expiate; propitiate; make amends, make good; reclaim, redeem, repair, ransom, absolve, purge, shrive, do penance, stand in a white sheet, repent in sackcloth and ashes, wear a hairshirt.
set one's house in order, wipe off old scores, make matters up; pay the forfeit, pay the penalty.
apologize, beg pardon, fair l'amende honorable[Fr], give satisfaction; come down on one's knees, fall down on one's knees, down on one's marrow bones.
M9.3.4 Moral Practise (R953 to R961)
<-- (generally, human moral behavior from an individual
perspective)
953. Temperance 954. Intemperance
Note: 954a. Sensualist to person P2.3.2.3.2.5.24 Sensualist
part of 955 to P2.3.2.3.2.5.25 Ascetic [[ref R955]] -- N.
955. Asceticism 957. Gluttony
956. Fasting
958. Sobriety 959. Drunkenness
960. Purity 961. Impurity
Note: 962. Libertine to person P2.3.2.3.2.5.23
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#953. Temperance. -- N. temperance, moderation, sobriety, soberness.
forbearance, abnegation; self-denial, self-restraint, self-control &c. (resolution) 604.
frugality; vegetarianism, teetotalism, total abstinence; abstinence, abstemiousness; Encratism[obs3], prohibition; system of Pythagoras, system of Cornaro; Pythagorism, Stoicism.
vegetarian; Pythagorean, gymnosophist[obs3].
teetotaler &c. 958; abstainer; designated driver; Encratite[obs3], fruitarian[obs3], hydropot[obs2].
V. be temperate &c. adj.; abstain, forbear, refrain, deny oneself, spare ,swear off.
know when one has had enough, know one's limit.
take the pledge, go on the wagon.
Adj. temperate, moderate, sober, frugal, sparing; abstemious, abstinent; within compass; measured &c. (sufficient) 639.
on the wagon, on the water wagon.
[re locations where alcoholic beverages are prohibited] dry.
Pythagorean; vegetarian; teetotal.
Phr. appetitus rationi obediant [Lat][Cicero]; l'abstenir pour jouir c'est l'epicurisme de la raison [Fr][Rousseau]; trahit sua quemque voluptas [Lat][Vergil].
#954. Intemperance. -- N. intemperance; sensuality, animalism, carnality; tragalism[obs3]; pleasure; effeminacy, silkiness; luxury, luxuriousness; lap of pleasure, lap of luxury; free living.
indulgence; high living, wild living, inabstinence[obs3], self-indulgence; voluptuousness &c. adj.; epicurism, epicureanism; sybaritism; drug habit.
dissipation; licentiousness &c. adj.; debauchery; crapulence[obs3].
revels, revelry; debauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout, wassail, saturnalia, orgies; excess, too much.
Circean cup.
[drugs of abuse: list] bhang, hashish, marijuana, pot [coll.], hemp [coll.], grass [coll.]; opium, cocaine, morphine, heroin; LSD[abbr], lysergic acid diethylamide[Chem][Chem]; phencyclidine, angel dust, PCP; barbiturates; amphetamines, speed [coll.].
{{trait_of: sensualist, R954a}}.
{{similar_to: R961, impurity}}.
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