moral force

1. 1.

   an efficient incentive

   “they hoped it would act as a spiritual dynamic on all churches”

   Synonymsdynamic

   Broaderincentive

Questions about moral force

What does moral force mean?

moral force means "an efficient incentive".

What is another word for moral force?

Close synonyms include dynamic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is moral force a common word?

moral force is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.