preceptnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈpriː.sept/us/ˈpriː.sept/formala rule for action or behaviour, especially obtained from moral thought:
This policy goes against common precepts of decency.
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Morality and rules of behaviour
- antisocial
- bioethics
- book
- claim
- conscience
- decency
- double standard
- morality
- moralize
- morally
- norm
- object lesson
- social contract
- spirit
- the rights and wrongs idiom
- the ways of the world idiom
- two wrongs don't make a right idiom
- value
- voice
- wrong
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