morale

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the degree of confidence, enthusiasm, discipline, and willingness to continue felt by a person or group, especially during difficulty or danger

   Job security and clear leadership restored morale across the exhausted workforce.

Borrowed from French morale, 'morality or moral conduct,' and later influenced by French le moral, 'state of mind.' In nineteenth-century English, especially in military use, it developed its modern sense of collective confidence and spirit.

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