superethical
English
Adjective
superethical (comparative more superethical, superlative most superethical)
- More than ethical; above ethics.
- a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay
- Moral theology, which contains a superethical doctrine, as grave divines have ridiculously called it, rendered the system of ethics in the writings of the ancient fathers […] more confused […]
- a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay
References
- “superethical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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