erogatory
English
Etymology
From Latin ērogō (“pay out, expend”), from ex (“out of, from”) + rogō (“ask; request”).
Adjective
erogatory (comparative more erogatory, superlative most erogatory)
- Doing the good that is required in a situation; meeting the moral obligations.
- 2013, Bradley Jay Strawser, Killing by Remote Control: The Ethics of an Unmanned Military, →ISBN:
- Indeed, if the costs of going to war were lowered, what was supererogatory might become erogatory: lowering the costs to humanitarian war may take away one of the principal motivations (the harm to the intervening agent) for making it supererogatory.
- 2015, Laurie J. Shrage & Robert Scott Stewart, Philosophizing About Sex, →ISBN:
- For gay celebrities, is the duty to come out erogatory or supererogatory, and similarly, if others have a duty to out them, is this erogatory or supererogatory?
- 2016, Dale Dorsey, The Limits of Moral Authority, →ISBN, page 62:
- One might say, plausibly, that the second is “merely erogatory”; it counts as the fulfillment of one's moral obligations, but not in a way that is particularly morally special.
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See also
- supererogatory