moral majority
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.34 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A faction of the US Republican Party whose policies include conservatism on social and personal matters, infusing religion into the American political process.
American usage
Etymology
Coined by conservative activist Paul Weyrich in 1979 and later popularized by televangelist Jerry Falwell.
Usage
- American usage
Inflected Forms
the Moral Majority (canonical)