superethical

adj

superethical

adj

Etymology From super- + ethical.

1

More than ethical; above ethics.

  • a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay Moral theology, which contains a superethical doctrine, as grave divines have ridiculously called it, rendered the system of ethics in the writings of the ancient fathers […] more confused […]

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