0 to express judgments about what is morally right and wrong:
his parents' self-righteous moralizing
1 to make judgments about right and wrong, esp. in a way that does not consider other people’s ideas or opinions:
The tenor of these wedding songs could be either grave and moralizing or mischievous, even lewd.
Such clumsy moralizing failed to convince his critics, however.
What changed was his view of the means to moralize modern states.
Nevertheless, ethical theorists who are uninterested in specific socio-historical conditions tend to overlook the unavoidable partiality of the moralizing party.
He was not a sufficiently contented individual in his own personal life5 0 to feel able to moralize too much about the characters of others.
But if the answers themselves are moralized, so too, of course, are the questions.
Practically, it seems clear that green virtues should moralize such behavior as reproduction and consumption.
The piece does not attempt to moralize, but counterpoints joy and celebration with grief and mourning.
