moral support

He hesitated, looking about him; but whether his search was for more pie or for moral support he did not say.

There are both bridesmaids and bride-leaders, the latter being married women who lend their moral support to the bride.

Titles do give some moral support even nowadays to certain kinds of minds.

His father was by that time dead, and in his mother, a frivolous and foolish woman, he found neither sympathy nor moral support.

But in this phase her thoughts wore a complexion of far less self-assurance, notwithstanding the moral support of her employer.

Ida had wavered but an instant; her companion clearly gave her moral support.

The moral support of men of your class has not been what you might call a sort of on the spot support, now, has it?

What is the moral support derived by some sea-going amateurs from an umbrella?

She was now the moral support of the whole company of helpless women.

The confident consent of both can furnish the material and moral support for the new order.