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#907. Malevolence. -- N. malevolence; bad intent, bad intention;
unkindness, diskindness; ill nature, ill will, ill blood; bad blood; enmity
&c. 889; hate &c. 898; malignity; malice, malice prepense; maliciousness
&c. adj.; spite, despite; resentment &c. 900.
uncharitableness &c. adj.; incompassionateness &c. 914a; gall, venom,
rancor, rankling, virulence, mordacity, acerbity churlishness &c.
(discourtesy) 895.
hardness of heart, heart of stone, obduracy; cruelty; cruelness &c.
adj.; brutality, savagery; ferity, ferocity; barbarity, inhumanity,
immanity|, truculence, ruffianism; evil eye, cloven foot; torture,
vivisection.
ill turn, bad turn; affront &c. (disrespect) 929; outrage, atrocity;
ill usage; intolerance, persecution; tender mercies [ironical]; " unkindest
cut of all" [Julius Caesar].
V. be malevolent &c. adj.; bear spleen, harbor spleen, bear a grudge,
harbor a rudge, bear malice; betray the cloven foot, show the cloven foot.
hurt &c. (physical pain) 378; annoy &c. 830; injure., harm, wrong; do
harm to, do an ill office to; outrage; disoblige, malign, plant a thorn in
the breast.
molest, worry, harass, haunt, harry, bait, tease; throw stones at;
play the devil with; hunt down, dragoon, hound; persecute, oppress, grind;
maltreat; illtreat, ill-use.
wreak one's malice on, do one's worst, break a butterfly on the wheel;
dip one's hands in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood; have no mercy &c.
914a.
Adj. malevolent, unbenevolent; unbenign; ill-disposed, ill-
intentioned, ill-natured, ill-conditioned, ill-contrived; evil-minded,
evil-disposed; black-browed.
malicious; malign, malignant; rancorous; despiteful, spiteful;
mordacious, caustic, bitter, envenomed, acrimonious, virulent; unamiable,
uncharitable; maleficent, venomous, grinding, galling.
harsh, disobliging; unkind, unfriendly, ungracious; inofficious;
invidious; uncandid; churlish &c. (uncourteous) 895; surly, sullen &c.
901a.
cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted; blackhearted, hardhearted,
flinthearted, marblehearted, stony-hearted; hard of heart, unnatural;
ruthless &c. (unmerciful) 914a; relentless &c. (revengeful) 919.
cruel; brutal, brutish; savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger;
ferine, ferocious; inhuman; barbarous, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent,
incendiary; bloodthirsty &c. (murderous) 361; atrocious; bloodyminded.
fiendish, fiendlike; demonlacal; diabolic, diabolical; devilish,
infernal, hellish, Satanic; Tartaran.
Adv. malevolently &c. adj.; with bad intent &c. n.
Phr. cruel as death; " hard unkindness' alter'd eye " [Gray]; homo
homini lupus [Plautus]; mala mens, malus animus [Terencel.; "rich gifts wax
poor when givers prove unkirid [Hamlet]; "sharp-tooth'd unkindness "
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#908. Malediction. -- N. malediction, malison, curse, imprecation,
denunciation, execration, anathema, ban, proscription, excommunication,
commination, thunders of the Vatican, fulmination, maranatha; aspersion,
disparagement, vilification, vituperation.
abuse; foul language, bad language, strong language, unparliamentary
language; billingsgate, sauce, evil speaking; cursing &c. v.; profane
swearing, oath; foul invective, ribaldry, rude reproach, scurrility.
threat &c. 909; more bark than bite; invective &c. (disapprobation)
932.
V. curse, accurse, imprecate, damn, swear at; curse with bell book and
candle; invoke curses on the head of, call down curses on the head of;
devote to destruction.
execrate, beshrew, scold; anathematize &c. (censure) 932; bold up to
execration, denounce, proscribe, excommunicate, fulminate, thunder against;
threaten &c. 909.
curse and swear; swear, swear like a trooper; fall a cursing, rap out
an oath, damn.
Adj. cursing, cursed &c. v.
Int. woe to! beshrew! ruat coelum! ill betide, woe betide; confusion
seize! damn! confound! blast! curse! devil take! hang! out with! a plague
upon!, out upon! aroynt! honi soit! parbleu!
Phr. delenda est Carthago.

#909. Threat. -- N. threat, menace; defiance &c. 715; abuse, minacity,
intimidation; denunciation; fulmination; commination &c. (curse) 908;
gathering clouds &c. (warning) 668.
V. threat, threaten; menace; snarl, growl, gnarl, mutter, bark, bully.
defy &c. 715; intimidate &c. 860; keep in terrorem, hold up in
terrorem, hold out in terrorem; shake the fist at, double the fist at,
clinch the fist at; thunder, talk big, fulminate, use big words, bluster,
look daggers.
Adj. threatening, menacing; minatorv, minacious; comminatory, abusive;
in terrorem; ominous &c. (predicting) 511 ; defiant &c. 715; under the ban.
Int. vae victis! at your peril! do your worst!

#910. Philanthropy. -- N. philanthropy, humanity, humanitarianism
universal benevolence; endaemonism, deliciae humani generis;
cosmopolitanism utilitarianism, the greatest happiness of the greatest
number, social science, sociology
common weal; socialism, communism, Fourierism, phalansterianism, Saint
Simonianism.
patriotism, civism, nationality, love of country, amor patriae, public
spirit.
chivalry, knight errantry; generosity &c. 942.
philanthropist, endaemonist, utilitarian, Benthamite, socialist,
communist, cosmopolite, citizen of the world, amicus humani generis; knight
errant; patriot.
Adj. philanthropic, humanitarian, utilitarian, cosmopolitan; public-
spirited, patriotic; humane, large-hearted &c. (benevolent) 906; chivalric;
generous &c. 942.
Adv. pro bono publico, pro aris et focis [Cicero].
Phr. humani nihil a me alienum puto [Terence]; omne solum forti patria
[Ovid]; un bien fait n'est jamais perdu.

#911. Misanthropy. -- N. misanthropy, incivism; egotism &c.
(selfishness) 943; moroseness &c. 901a; cynicism.
misanthrope, misanthropist, egotist, cynic, man hater, Timon,
Diogenes.
woman hater, misogynist.
Adj. misanthropic, antisocial, unpariotic; egotistical &c.(selfish)
943; morose &c. 901a.

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#912. Benefactor. - N. benefactor, savior, good genius, tutelary
saint, guardian angel, good Samaritan; pater patriae; salt of the earth &c.
(good man); 948; auxiliary &c. 711.


#913. [Maleficent being] Evil doer -- N. evil doer, evil worker;
wrongdoer &c. 949; mischief-maker, marplot; oppressor, tyrant; firebrand,
incendiary, fire bug [U. S.], pyromaniac; anarchist, destroyer, Vandal,
iconoclast; communist, terrorist.
savage, brute, ruffian, barbarian, semibarbarian, caitiff, desperado;
Apache, hoodlum, plug-ugly*, pug-ugly* [U.S.], Red Skin, tough [U. S.]; Mo-
hock, Mo-hawk; bludgeon man, bully, rough, hooligan, larrikin, dangerous
classes, ugly customer; thief &c. 792.
cockatrice, scorpion, hornet; viper, adder; snake, snake in the
grass; serpent, cobra, asp, rattlesnake, anaconda; canker-worm, wire-worm;
locust, Colorado beetle; alacran, alligator, caymon, crocodile, mosquito,
mugger, octopus; torpedo; bane &c. 663.
cannibal; anthropophagus, anthropophagist; bloodsucker, vampire, ogre,
ghoul, gorilla, vulture; gyr-falcon, ger-falcon.
wild beast, tiger, hyena, butcher, hangman; cutthroat &c. (killer)
461; blood-hound, hell-hound, sleuth-hound; catamount [U. S.], cougar,
jaguar, puma.
hag, hellhag, beldam, Jezebel.
monster; fiend &c. (demon) 980; devil incarnate, demon in human shape;
Frankenstein's monster.
harpy, siren; Furies, Eumenides.
Attila, scourge of the human race.
Phr. faenum habet in cornu.


3. SPECIAL SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS


#914. Pity. -- N. pity, compassion, commiseration; bowels, of
compassion; sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance,
humanity, mercy, clemency; leniency &c. (lenity) 740; charity, ruth, long-
suffering.
melting mood; argumentum ad misericordiam, quarter, grace, locus
paenititentiae.
sympathizer; advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher.
V. pity; have pity, show pity, take pity &c. n.; -c. n.; commiserate,
compassionate; condole &c. 915; sympathize; feel for, be sorry for, yearn
for; weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of.
forbear, relent, relax, give quarter, wipe the tears, parcere
subjectis, give a coup de grce, put out of one's misery.
raise pity , excite pity &c. n..; touch, soften; melt, melt the heart;
propitiate, disarm.
ask for mercy &c. v.; supplicate &c. (request) 765; cry for quarter,
beg one's life, kneel; deprecate.
Adj. pitying &c. v.; pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic, touched.
merciful, clement, ruthful; humane; humanitarian &c. (philanthropic)
910; tender, tender hearted, tender as a chicken; soft, soft hearted;
unhardened; lenient &c. 740; exorable, forbearing; melting &c. v.; weak.
Int. for pity's sake! mercy! have mercy! cry you mercy! God help you!
poor thing! poor - dear! poor fellow! woe betide! quis talia fando
temperet a lachrymis! [Vergil].
Phr, one's heart bleeding for; haud ignara mali miseris succurrere
disco [Vergil]; " a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind " [Garrick] onor
di bocca assai giova e poco costa.

#914a. Pitilessness. -- N. pitilessness &c. adj.; inclemency; severity
&c. 739; malevolence &c. 907.
V. have no mercy, shut the gates of mercy &c. 914; give no quarter.
Adj. pitiless, merci-, ruthless, bowelless; unpitying, unmerciful,
inclement; grimfaced, grim-visaged; incompassionate, uncompassionate;
inexorable; harsh &c. 739; unrelenting &c. 919.

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#915. Condolence. -- N. condolenec; lamentation &c. 839; sympathy,
consolation.
V. condole with, console, sympathize express pity, testify pity;
afford consolation, supply consolation; lament &c. 839 with; express
sympathy for; feel grief in common with, feel sorrow in common with; share
one's sorrow.


4. RETROSPECTIVE SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS


#916. Gratitude. -- N. gratitude, thankfulness, feeling of obligation,
sense of obligation.
acknowledgment, recognition, thanksgiving, thanksgiving, giving
thanks; thankful good will.
thanks, praise, benediction; paean; Te Deum &c. (worship) 990; grace,
grace before meat, grace after meat; thank offering.
requital.
V. be grateful &c. adj.; thank; give thanks , render thanks, return
thanks, offer thanks, tender thanks &c. n.; acknowledge, requite.
feel under an obligation, be under an obligation, lie under an
obligation; savoir gr; not look a gift horse in the mouth; never forget,
overflow with gratitude; thank one's stars, bless one's stars; fall on
one's knees.
Adj. grateful, thankful, obliged, beholden, indebted to, under
obligation.
Int. thanks! many thanks! gramercy! much obliged! thank you! thank
Heaven! Heaven be praised!

#917. Ingratitude. -- N. ingratitude, thanklessness, oblivion of
benefits, unthankfulness.
" benefits forgot "; thankless task,thankless office.
V. be ungrateful &c. adj.; forget benefits; look a gift horse in the
mouth.
Adj. ungrateful, unmindful, unthankful; thankless, ingrate, wanting in
gratitude, insensible of benefits.
forgotten; unacknowledged, unthanked, unrequited, unrewarded; ill-
requited.
Int. thank you for nothing! " et tu Brute! " [Julius Caesar].
Phr. "ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend " [Lear].

#918. Forgiveness. -- N. forgiveness, pardon, condonation, grace,
remission, absolution, amnesty, oblivion; indulgence; reprieve.
conciliation; reconcilement; reconciliation &c. (pacification) 723;
propitiation.
excuse, exoneration, quittance, release, indemnity; bill of indemnity,
act of indemnity, covenant of indemnity, deed of indemnity; exculpation &c.
(acquittal) 970.
longanimity, placability; amantium irae; locus paenitentiae;
forbearance.
V. forgive, forgive and forget; pardon, condone, think no more of, let
bygones be bygones, shake hands; forget an injury. excuse, pass over,
overlook; wink at &c. (neglect) 460; bear with; allow for, make allowances
for; let one down easily, not be too hard upon, pocket the affront.
let off, remit, absolve, give absolution, reprieve; acquit &c. 970.
beg pardon, ask pardon, implore pardon &c. n.; conciliate, propitiate,
placate; make up a quarrel &c. (pacify) 723; let the wound heal.
Adj. forgiving, placable, conclliatory,.
forgiven &c. v.; unresented, unavenged, unrevenged.
Adv. cry you mercy.
Phr. veniam petimusque damusque vicissim [Horace]; more in sorrow than
in anger; comprendre tout c'est tout pardonner; " the offender never
pardons" [Herbert].

#919. Revenge. -- N. revenge, revengement; vengeance; avengement,
avengeance|, sweet revenge, vendetta, death feud, blood for blood
retaliation &c. 718; day of reckoning.
rancor, vindictiveness, implacability; malevolence &c. 907;
ruthlessness &c. 914a.
avenger, vindicator, Nemesis, Eumenides.
V. revenge, avenge; vindicate; take one's revenge, have one's revenge;
breathe revenge, breathe vengeance; wreak one's vengeance, wreak one's
anger.
have accounts to settle, have a crow to pluck, have a rod in pickle.
keep the wound green; harbor revenge, harbor vindictive feeling; bear
malice; rankle, rankle in the breast.
Adj. revengeful, vengeful; vindictive, rancorous; pitiless &c. 914a;
ruthless, rigorous, avenging.
unforgiving, unrelenting; inexorable, stony-hearted, implacable;
relentless, remorseless.
aeternum servans sub pectore vulnus; rankling; immitigable.
Phr. manet ciratrix, manet alid mente repostum; dies irae dies illa; "
in high vengeance there is noble scorn " [G. Eliot]; inhumanum verbum est
ultio [Seneca); malevolus animus abditos dentes habet [Syrus]; " now
infidel I have thee on the hip " [Merchant of Venice].

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#920. Jealousy.-- N. jealousy,jealousness; jaundiced eye; envious
suspicion, suspicion; " green-eyed monster " [Othello]; yellows; Juno.
V. be jealous &c. adj.; view with jealousy, view with a jealous eye.
Adj. jealous, jealous as a barbary pigeon; jaundiced, yellow-eyed,
envious, hornmad.

#921. Envy. -- N. envy; enviousness &c. adj.; rivalry; jalousie de
milier; illwill, spite.
V. envy, covet, burst with envy.
Adj. envious, invidious, covetous; alieni appetens.
Phr. " base envy withers at another's joy " [Thomson]; caeca invidia
est [Livy]; multa petentibus desunt multa [Horace]; summa petit livor
[Ovid].



SECTION IV. MORAL AFFECTIONS

1. MORAL OBLIGATIONS


#922. Right. -- N. right; what ought to be, what should be; fitness
&c. adj.; summum jus.
justice, equity; equitableness &c. adj.; propriety; fair play,
impartiality, measure for measure, give and take, lex talionis.
Astraea, Nemesis, Themis.
scales of justice, evenhanded justice, karma; suum cuique; clear
stage, fair field and no favor.
morals &c. (duty) 926; law &c. 963; honor &c. (probity) 939; virtue
&c. 944.
V. be right &c. adj.; stand to reason.
see justice done, see one righted, see fair play; do justice to;
recompense &c. (reward) 973; bold the scales even, give and take; serve one
right, put the saddle on the right horse; give every one his due , give the
devil his due; audire alteram partem.
deserve &c. (be entitled to) 924.
Adj. right, good; just, reasonable; fit &c. 924; equal, equable,
equatable; evenhanded, fair.
legitimate, justifiable, rightful; as it should be, as it ought to be;
lawful &c. (permitted) 760, (legal) 963.
deserved &c. 924.
Adv. rightly &c. adj.;  bon droit, au bon droit, in justice, in
equity,, in reason.
without distinction of persons, without regard to persons, without
respect to persons; upon even terms.
Int. all right!
Phr. Dieu et mon droit;," in equal scale weighing delight and dole "
[Hamlet]; justitia cuum cuique distribuit [Cicero]; justititiae soror
incorrupta fides; justitia virtutem regina; " thrice is he armed that hath
his quarrel just " [Henry VI].


#923. Wrong. -- N. wrong; what ought not to be, what should not be;
malum in se; unreasonableness, grievance; shame.
injustice; unfairness &c. adj.; iniquity, foul play, partiality,
leaning; favor, favoritism; nepotism, party spirit; undueness &c. 925;
unlawfulness &c. 964.
robbing Peter to pay Paul &c. v.; the wolf and the lamb; vice &c. 945.
" a custom more honored in the breach than the observance " [Hamlet].
V. be wrong &c. adj.; cry to heaven for vengeance.
do wrong &c. n.; be inequitable &c. adj.; favor, lean towards;
encroach upon, impose upon; reap where one has not sown; give an inch and
take an ell; rob Peter to pay Paul.
Adj. wrong, wrongful; bad, too bad; unjust, unfair; inequitable,
unequitable; unequal, partial, one-sided; injurious.
objectionable; unreasonable, unallowable, unwarrantable,
unjustifiable; improper, unfit; unjustified &c. 925; illegal &c. 964;
iniquitous; immoral &c. 945.
in the wrong, in the wrong box.
Adv. wrongly &c. adj.
Phr. it will not do.

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#924. Dueness. -- N. due, dueness; right, privilege, prerogative,
prescription, title, claim, pretension, demand, birthright. immunity,
license, liberty, franchise; vested interest, vested right.
sanction, authority, warranty, charter; warrant &c. (permission) 760;
constitution &c. (law) 963; tenure; bond &c. (security) 771.
claimant, appellant; plaintiff &c. 938.
V. be due &c. adj. to, be the due &c. n. of; have right to, have
title to, have claim to; be entitled to; have a claim upon; belong to &c.
(property) 780.
deserve, merit, be worthy of, richly deserve.
demand, claim; call upon for, come upon for, appeal to for;
revendicate, reclaim; exact; insist on, insist upon; challenge; take one's
stand, make a point of, require, lay claim to, assert, assume, arrogate,
make good; substantiate; vindicate a claim, vindicate a right; fit for,
*qualify for; make out a case.
give a right, confer a right; entitle; authorize &c. 760; sanctify,
legalize, ordain, prescribe, allot.
give every one his due &c. 922; pay one's dues; have one's due, have
one's rights.
use a right, assert, enforce, put in force, lay under contribution.
Adj. having a right to &c. v.; entitled to; claiming; deserving,
meriting, worthy of.
privileged, allowed, sanctioned, warranted, authorized; ordained,
prescribed, constitutional, chartered, enfranchised. prescriptive,
presumptive; absolute, indefeasible; unalienable, inalienable;
imprescriptible, inviolable, unimpeachable, unchallenged; sacrosanct.
due to, merited, deserved, condign, richly deserved.
allowable &c. (permitted) 760; lawful, licit, legitimate, legal;
legalized &c. (law) 963.
square, unexceptionable, right; equitable &c. 922; due, en r
gle; fit,
fitting; correct, proper, meet, befitting, becoming, seemly; decorous;
creditable, up to the mark, right as a trivet; just the thing, quite the
thing; selon les r
gles.
Adv. duly, ex officio, de jure; by right, by divine right; jure
divino, Dei gratia, in the name of.
Phr. civis Romanus sum [Cicero];  chaque saint sa chandelle.


#925. [Absence of right.] Undueness. -- N. undueness &c. adj.; malum
prohibitum; impropriety; illegality &c. 964.

falseness &c. adj.; emptiness of title, invalidity of title;
illegitimacy.
loss of right, disfranchisement, forfeiture.
usurpation, tort, violation, breach, encroachment, presumption,
assumption, seizure; stretch, exaction, imposition, lion's share.
usurper, pretender.
V. be undue &c. adj.; not be due &c. 924.
infringe, encroach, trench on, exact; arrogate, arrogate to oneself;
give an inch and take an ell; stretch a point, strain a point; usurp,
violate, do violence to.
disfranchise, disentitle, disqualify; invalidate.
relax &c. (be lax) 738; misbehave &c. (vice) 945; misbecome.
Adj. undue; unlawful &c. (illegal) 964; unconstitutional; illicit;
unauthorized, unwarranted, unallowed, unsanctioned, unjustified;
unentitled, disentitled, unqualified, disqualified; unprivileged,
unchartered.
illegitimate, bastard, spurious, false; usurped, tortious.
undeserved, unmerited, unearned; unfulfilled.
forfeited, disfranchised.
improper; unmeet, unfit, unbefitting, unseemly; unbecoming,
misbecoming; seemless; contra bonos mores; not the thing, out of the
question, not to be thought of; preposterous, pretentious, would-be.
Phr. filius nullius.

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#926. Duty. -- N. duty, what ought to be done, moral obligation,
accountableness, liability, onus, responsibility; bounden duty, imperative
duty,; call, call of duty,; accountability.
allegiance, fealty, tie engagement &c. (promise) 768; part; function,
calling &c. (business) 625.
morality,, morals, decalogue; case of conscience; conscientiousness
&c. (probity) 939; conscience, inward monitor, still small voice within,
sense of duty, tender conscience; the hell within [P. L.]. dueness &c. 924;
propriety, fitness, seemliness, amenability, decorum, ;
the thing, the proper thing; the right thing to do, the proper thing to do.
[Science of morals] ethics, ethology.; deontology, aretology; moral
philosophy, ethical philosophy,; casuistry, polity.
observance, fulfillment, discharge, performance, acquittal,
satisfaction, redemption; good behavior.
V. be the duty of; be incumbent &c. adj. on, be responsible &c. adj.;
behoove, become, befit, beseem; belong to, pertain to; fall to one's lot;
devolve on; lie upon, lie on one's head, lie at one's door; rest with, rest
on the shoulders of. take upon oneself &c. (promise) 768; be bound to,
become bound to, be sponsor for, become sponsor for; incur a responsibility
&c. n.; be under an obligation, stand under an obligation, lie under an
obligation; have to answer for, owe to it oneself.
impose a duty, &c. n.; enjoin, require, exact; bind, bind over; saddle
with, prescribe, assign, call upon, look to, oblige.
enter upon a duty, perform a duty, observe a duty, fulfill a duty,
discharge a duty, adhere to a duty, acquit oneself of a duty, satisfy a
duty, enter upon an obligation, perform an obligation, observe an
obligation, fulfill an obligation, discharge an obligation, adhere to an
obligation, acquit oneself of an obligation, satisfy an obligation; act
one's part, redeem one's pledge, do justice to, be at one's post; do duty;
do one's duty &c. (be virtuous) 944.
be on one's good behavior, mind one's P's and Q's.
Adj. obligatory, binding; imperative, peremptory; stringent &c.
(severe) 739; behooving &c. v.; incumbent on, chargeable on; under
obligation; obliged by, bound by, tied by; saddled with.
due to, beholden to, bound to, indebted to; tied down; compromised &c.
(promised) 768; in duty bound.
amenable, liable, accountable, responsible, answerable.
right, meet &c. (due) 924; moral, ethical, casuistical, conscientious,
ethological.
Adv. with a safe conscience, as in duty, bound, on one's own
responsibility, at one's own risk, suo periculo; in foro conscientiae;
quamdiu se bene gesserit.
Phr. dura lex sed lex; dulce et decorum est pro patria mori; honos
habet onus; leve fit quod bene fertur onus [Ovid] loyaut m'oblige; "
simple duty bath no place for fear " [Whittier]; " stern daughter of the
voice of God " [Wordsworth]; " there is a higher law than the Constitution
" [Wm. Seward].


#927. Dereliction of Duty. -- N. dereliction of duty; fault &c.
(guilt) 947; sin &c. (vice) 945; non-observance, non-performance; neglect,
relaxation, infraction, violation, transgression, failure, evasion; dead
letter.
V. violate; break, break through; infringe; set aside, set at naught;
encroach upon, trench upon; trample on, trample under foot; slight,
neglect, evade, renounce, forswear, repudiate; wash one's hands of; escape,
transgress, fail.
call to account &c. (disapprobation) 932.

#927a. Exemption. - N. exemption, freedom, irresponsibility, immunity,
liberty, license, release, exoneration, excuse, dispensation, absolution,
franchise, renunciation, discharge; exculpation &c. 970.
V. be exempt &c. adj.
exempt, release, acquit, discharge, quitclaim, remise, remit; free,
set at liberty, let off, pass over, spare, excuse, dispense with, give
dispensation, license; stretch a point; absolve &c. (forgive) 918;
exonerate &c. (exculpate) 970; save the necessity.
Adj. exempt, free, immune, at liberty, scot-free; released &c. v.;
unbound, unencumbered; irresponsible, unaccountable, not answerable;
excusable.
Phr. bonis nocet quisquis pepercerit malis [Syrus].

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MORAL OBLIGATIONS

2. Moral Sentiments


#928. Respect. -- N. respect, regard, consideration; courtesy &c. 894;
attention, deference, reverence, honor, esteem, estimation, veneration,
admiration; approbation &c. 931.
homage, fealty, obeisance, genuflection, kneeling prostration;
obsequiousness &c. 886; salaam, kowtow, bow, presenting arms, salute.
respects, regards, duty, devoirs, gards.
devotion &c. (piety) 987.
V. respect, regard; revere, reverence; hold in reverence, honor,
venerate, hallow; esteem &c. (approve of) 931; think much of; entertain
respect for, bear respect for; look up to, defer to; have a high opinion
of, hold a high opinion of; pay attention, pay respect &c. n. to; do honor
to, render honor to; do the honors, hail; show courtesy &c. 894; salute,
present arms; do homage to, pay homage to; pay tribute to, kneel to, bow
to, bend the knee to; fall down before, prostrate oneself, kiss the hem of
one's garment; worship &c. 990.
keep one's distance, make room, observe due decorum, stand upon
ceremony.
command respect, inspire respect; awe, impose, overawe, dazzle.
Adj. respecting &c.v.; respectful, deferential, decorous, reverential,
obsequious, ceremoniuous, bareheaded, cap in hand, on one's knees;
prostrate &c. (servile) 886.
respected &c.v.; in high esteem, in high estimation; time-honored,
venerable, emeritus.
Adv. in deference to; with all respect, with due respect, with the
highest respect; with submission.
saving your grace, saving your presence; salva sit reverentia; pace
tanti nominis.
Int. hail! all hail! esto perpetua! may your shadow never be less!
Phr. "and pluck up drowned honor by the locks" [Henry IV]; "his honor
rooted in dishonor stood" [Tennyson]; "honor pricks me on" [Henry IV].

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