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   ethics

   /ˈɛθɪks/

   plural

   • 1. moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity: "medical ethics also enter into the question"
   • ▪ the moral correctness of specified conduct: "many scientists question the ethics of cruel experiments"
   • 2. the branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles: "neither metaphysics nor ethics is the home of religion"

   Derivatives

   • 1. ethicist noun

   Scrabble Points: 11

   • E

     1

   • T

     1

   • H

     4

   • I

     1

   • C

     3

   • S

     1

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