1
: from the point of view of moral rules or principles : in terms of accepted moral standards
if public administration is morally bad but legally sound—
Sydney (Australia) Bulletin
2
: according to reason or probability : virtually
she was morally certain now that this feeling of hatred, which at first had been a refuge and a refreshment, had become the occupation and comfort of his life—Henry James
3
: with respect to the mental and psychological as distinguished from the physical
helped her, morally rather than physically, to rise—Arnold Bennett morally and physically exhausted
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