moral authority

noun

: trustworthiness to make decisions that are right and good
The scandal has undermined the government's moral authority.

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As tech leaders seek Vatican engagement, the Church is asserting its moral authority to push for binding AI regulations, warning that leaving oversight to corporations risks eroding human dignity, justice, and spiritual values. Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 19 June 2025 While the play is an ensemble piece, Sink’s character comes in like a wrecking ball who takes aim at the moral authority ascribed to the character of John Proctor in The Crucible as well as the systems set up to protect men around her. Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 29 May 2025 Stranger by the Lake is a bookend of sorts to La Piscine, as both films seem to condemn their characters, and by extension, the counterculture surrounding them, to a lassitude incapable of any moral authority. Erik Morse, Vogue, 26 June 2025 In many conflicts, the most the United Nations could do was to summon the moral authority to condemn and to document. Amanda Chicago Lewis, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for moral authority

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“Moral authority.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moral%20authority. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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