amora | (n) one of a group of rabbis (active AD 250-500) who discussed the Mishnaic law in the law schools of Palestine and Mesopotamia where they explained and applied earlier teachings and whose discussions are recorded in the Talmud; they emphasized the study of Torah and the importance of personal action and the fulfillment of the commandments |
amoralism | (n) the doctrine that moral distinctions are invalid |
amoralist | (n) someone who adheres to the doctrine that ordinary moral distinctions are invalid |
amorality | (n) the quality of being amoral |
inamorata | (n) a woman with whom you are in love or have an intimate relationship |
inamorato | (n) a man with whom you are in love or have an intimate relationship |
immorally | (adv) without regard for morality, Syn. amorally, Ant. morally |
national liberation army | (n) a terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups; a revival of a group with Marxist-Leninist ideologies originally established by Che Guevara in the 1960s, Syn. CNPZ, ELN, Nestor Paz Zamora Commission |