premorally

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

premoral +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

premorally (not comparable)

  1. In a premoral manner; before the development of a sense of morality.
    • 2018, Todd A. Salzman, Michael G. Lawler, Virtue and Theological Ethics: Toward a Renewed Ethical Method:
      McCormick and other ethicists, however, leave room for the possibility that some homosexual acts, while they may be premorally evil, are not morally evil and may, indeed, be morally good.