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  1. Moral character

    Moral character or character is an evaluation of a particular individual's durable moral qualities. The concept of character can imply a variety of attributes including the existence or lack of virtues such as integrity, courage, fortitude, honesty, and loyalty, or of good behaviors or habits. Moral character primarily refers to the assemblage of qualities that distinguish one individual from another — although on a cultural level, the set of moral behaviors to which a social group adheres can be said to unite and define it culturally as distinct from others. Psychologist Lawrence Pervin defines moral character as "a disposition to express behavior in consistent patterns of functions across a range of situations."

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of moral character in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of moral character in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of moral character in a Sentence

  1. Elias Boudinot:

    Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.

  2. Chris Bergin:

    Now we believe that Miguel is eligible for naturalization because criminal conviction doesn't render him ineligible through' bad moral character.' That's the term they use, that's what we're going to argue, and I think it's a good argument.

  3. Aristotle:

    What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

  4. John Locke:

    We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.

  5. Nathaniel Emmons:

    I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.


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