moral obligation

1. 1.

   an obligation arising out of considerations of right and wrong

   “he did it out of a feeling of moral obligation”

   Broaderduty

Questions about moral obligation

What does moral obligation mean?

moral obligation means "an obligation arising out of considerations of right and wrong".

Is moral obligation a common word?

moral obligation 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.