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morality play
noun
- an allegorical form of the drama current from the 14th to 16th centuries and employing such personified abstractions as Virtue, Vice, Greed, Gluttony, etc.
morality play
noun
- a type of drama written between the 14th and 16th centuries concerned with the conflict between personified virtues and vices
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of morality play1
Example Sentences
It can now represent a librarian, adjunct professor or social worker, all of whom make little more than McDonald’s wages, but are the cultural villains of the great Republican morality play.
Maybe it’s for the better — but you’ve been missing out on an unlikely morality play about who makes it and who doesn’t in the eternal heartbreak that is Los Angeles.
Possessing signifiers of a morality play, “The Lehman Trilogy†is, curiously enough, missing a moral center.
He was mindful that it not turn preachy — it’s not “a cautionary tale, a morality play, nothing like that,†he said.
Utah’s uniquely fierce commitment to anti-federal sentiment keeps this morality play running endlessly.
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