moral order

Noun

 * 1) A body of unwritten social mores and conventions which serve to maintain societal order.
 * 2) * 1758, Margaret Cleeve, Ivison Macadam, The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year Vols. for 1784-85 issued in combined form; 1820, in 2 pts., facsimile reprinted, ISBN 0582061334, Longmans, Green (1957), p. 261,
 * But the Deputies must understand that the great necessity of to-day is the consolidation of order in the nation, and not only of material order, but of moral order also.
 * 1) * 1790, John Macdonald, Mr Owen's projects exposed read in The Gentleman's Magazine, F. Jefferies et al, p. 302,
 * They are calculated to unhinge and subvert the whole frame and moral order of society.
 * 1) * 1797, Thomas Erskine Erskine, A View of the Causes and Consequences of the Present War with France, J. Debrett, ISBN 0665208286 (reproduction of original) p. 134,
 * Those valuable classes of men who take the deepest interest in whatever appears to be connected with the moral order of the world.
 * 1) * 1798, William Wilberforce, A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, contrasted with Real Christianity, T. Cadell, jun., and W. Davies, (successors to Mr Cadell), p. iv,
 * The same awful impressions excited by the divine threatenings and punishments recorded in Scripture, and by the moral order of the world.
 * 1) * 1862, John Locke, A system of theology, Stationers' Hall, p. 279,
 * So also the apostle expresses this great change as a new creation, or renewing, that is, being made again, or anew, after a moral order.
 * 1) * 1798, William Wilberforce, A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, contrasted with Real Christianity, T. Cadell, jun., and W. Davies, (successors to Mr Cadell), p. iv,
 * The same awful impressions excited by the divine threatenings and punishments recorded in Scripture, and by the moral order of the world.
 * 1) * 1862, John Locke, A system of theology, Stationers' Hall, p. 279,
 * So also the apostle expresses this great change as a new creation, or renewing, that is, being made again, or anew, after a moral order.