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erogatory

erogatory adjective: doing the good that is required in a situation; meeting the moral obligations.

Adjective

erogatory (comparative more erogatory, superlative most erogatory)

  1. Doing the good that is required in a situation; meeting the moral obligations.
    • Indeed, if the costs of going to war were lowered, what was supererogatory might become erogatory: lowering the costs to humanitarian war may take away one of the principal motivations (the harm to the intervening agent) for making it supererogatory.2013, Bradley Jay Strawser, Killing by Remote Control: The Ethics of an Unmanned Military, →ISBN
    • For gay celebrities, is the duty to come out erogatory or supererogatory, and similarly, if others have a duty to out them, is this erogatory or supererogatory?2015, Laurie J. Shrage, Robert Scott Stewart, Philosophizing About Sex, →ISBN

Forms of erogatory

comparativemore erogatory
superlativemost erogatory

Origin of erogatory

From Latin ērogō (“pay out, expend”), from ex (“out of, from”) + rogō (“ask; request”).

Questions about erogatory

What does erogatory mean?
Erogatory means doing the good that is required in a situation; meeting the moral obligations.
What part of speech is erogatory?
Erogatory is an adjective.

Words near erogatory in the dictionary

  1. erogated
  2. erogates
  3. erogating
  4. erogation
  5. erogations
  6. erogatory
  7. eroge
  8. erogenic
  9. erogenicity
  10. erogenous
  11. erogenous zone

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