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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
moralisation is a noun meaning "indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code". It carries 2 recorded senses.
indulgence in moral pronouncements; the exposition (often superficially) of a particular moral code
“his constant moralizing drove me mad”
the act of making moral (or more moral)
“for years she worked toward the moralization of English literature”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for moralisation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.