单词 | morality play |
释义 | morality playnounan allegorical form of the drama current from the 14th to 16th centuries and employing such personified abstractions as Virtue, Vice, Greed, Gluttony, etc. Compare miracle play, mystery play. Origin of morality playFirst recorded in 1925–30 Words nearby morality playmorale, moral hazard, moralism, moralist, morality, morality play, moralize, morally, Moral Majority, moral philosophy, Moral Re-Armament Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for morality playmorality play nouna type of drama written between the 14th and 16th centuries concerned with the conflict between personified virtues and vices Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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