MORALITY PLAY

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Meaning:

An allegorical play popular in the 15th and 16th centuries; characters personified virtues and vices

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("morality play" is a kind of...):

drama; dramatic play; play (a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage)

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