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Definition moral victory in British English

moral victory noun

[countable] noun
1

if you win a moral victory, you feel that you have shown you were right about something, even though someone else has officially won the argument

Example

The decision to impose a mild sentence was seen as a moral victory.

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Definition moral victory in British English