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Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mô
ipa: /mɔː(ɹ)/
enpr: môr
ipa: /mɔɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: mōr
ipa: /mo(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /moə/
note: non-rhotic, dough-door merger, African-American Vernacular
ipa: /moʊ/
homophone: moor
homophone: Moor
homophone: Moore (pour–poor merger)
homophone: maw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: mow (non-rhotic, dough–door merger)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈmɔː.ɹeɪ/
enpr: mô
ipa: /mɔː(ɹ)/
enpr: môr
ipa: /mɔɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: mōr
ipa: /mo(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /moə/
note: non-rhotic, dough-door merger, African-American Vernacular
ipa: /moʊ/
homophone: moor
homophone: Moor
homophone: Moore (pour–poor merger)
homophone: maw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: mow (non-rhotic, dough–door merger)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: mores
Etymology: Back-formation from mores.
Senses: examples: text: In the 1990s, smoking is considered dumb and a symbol of bad health habits, replete with the Surgeon General’s warnings. But even this belief is a social more, subject to time. Maybe some future society will consider smoking brave—a symbolic affront to Big Brother government—or cowardly—a cop-out to avoid some type of community service.
ref: 1996, Michael J. Bugeja, “[Influence] The Impact of Social Mores”, in Living Ethics: Developing Values in Mass Communication, Boston, Mass.: Allyn and Bacon, →ISBN, part I (Building Your Ethical Base), page 15:
text: A value is a social more or norm manifested as a result of history and culture. It is a shared understanding among people of what is good, desirable or just.
ref: 2004, Robert S. Pomeroy, John E. Parks, Lani M. Watson, “[The MPA management effectiveness indicators] The socio-economic indicators”, in How Is Your MPA Doing? A Guidebook of Natural and Social Indicators for Evaluating Marine Protected Area Management Effectiveness (IUCN Programme on Protected Areas), Gland; Cambridge: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, →ISBN, page 122:
text: Given that emotions such as shame, guilt, embarrassment and others involve a violation of a social more or rule, these are often called the social emotions, self-conscious emotions or secondary emotions.
ref: 2008, David R. Caruso, “Emotions and the Ability Model of Emotional Intelligence”, in Robert J. Emmerling, Vinod K. Shanwal, Manas K[umar] Mandal, editors, Emotional Intelligence: Theoretical and Cultural Perspectives, New York, N.Y.: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 7:
text: In a seeming paradox, however, broken taboos may not always carry the heavy repercussions of violations of a social more.
ref: 2008, Barak A. Salmoni, Paula Holmes-Eber, “[Dimension Five – Belief Systems] Some Features of Belief Systems”, in Operational Culture for the Warfighter: Principles and Applications, Quantico, Va.: Marine Corps University Press, →ISBN, part II (Five Operational Culture Dimensions for Planning and Execution), page 189:
glosses: singular of mores