English Dictionary

moral authority

名詞

人物 不可算名詞

(of a person, institution, or written work) The quality or characteristic of being respected for having good character or knowledge, especially as a source of guidance or an exemplar of proper conduct.

日本語の意味

道徳的権威 / 品行や知識に基づき、他者から尊敬される性質・影響力

The university's long history of defending human rights has given it moral authority on issues of social justice.

人権擁護に長年取り組んできたその大学は、社会正義の問題に関して道徳的権威を持っている。

意味（1）

(of a person, institution, or written work) The quality or characteristic of being respected for having good character or knowledge, especially as a source of guidance or an exemplar of proper conduct.

The people adopted the government they had framed, and thus gave it its moral authority.

意味（2）

One possessing this characteristic.

At first Martin Luther King Jr. invoked Booker as a moral authority for King's ethic of love and his posture of passive resistance to white hatred.

意味（3）

The right or power to act (or direct others to act), based on the belief that the actor is moral, rather than on the actor having or needing some formal power to do so.

Thus, when the military breaches the existing political order, it will be forced to claim a moral authority for its actions.