MORAL COMPASS

PRONUNCIATION: (MOR-uhl kuhm-puhs)

MEANING: noun: One’s inner sense of right and wrong.

ETYMOLOGY: From moral, from Latin mos (custom) + compass (an instrument for determining directions), from Old French compasser (to measure), from Latin com- (with) + passus (pace). Earliest documented use: 1817.
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CORAL COMPASS - how the sea organisms know to make such a perfect circle

ORAL COMPASS - open my mouth, stick out my tongue, and I can tell which way the wind is blowing

AMOR-AL COMPASS - an innate sense of knowing where to bestow my affections