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mores Mores refer to moral rules or ways of behaving that most members of a society believe are essential for maintaining standards of decency. Mores are vigorously enforced and transgressions punished by either group disapproval and sanction or, where mores become laws, by legal action. See also FOLKWAYS.

A Dictionary of Sociology GORDON MARSHALL

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mo·res / ˈmôrˌāz/ • pl. n. the essential or characteristic customs and conventions of a community: an offense against social mores.

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English

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mores see MORAL.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology T. F. HOAD

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