Mœurs
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"The English language has no derivative noun from "mores," and no equivalent for it. The French mœurs is trivial compared with "mores." The German Sitte renders "mores" but very imperfectly. The modern peoples have made morals and morality a separate domain, by the side of religion, philosophy, and politics. In that sense, morals is an impossible and unreal category. It has no existence, and can have none."--Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals (1907) by William Graham Sumner |
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Mœurs is the French term for manners or mores.
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See also
- Brigade des mœurs
- outrage aux bonnes mœurs
- Moeurs du temps
- Physiological literature (French literary genre)
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