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Webster 1913 Edition
Moralist
Mor′al-ist
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
moraliste
.] 1.
One who moralizes; one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties.
Addison.
2.
One who practices moral duties; a person who lives in conformity with moral rules; one of correct deportment and dealings with his fellow-creatures; – sometimes used in contradistinction to one whose life is controlled by religious motives.
The love (in the
moralist
of virtue, but in the Christian) of God himself. Hammond.
Webster 1828 Edition
Moralist
MOR'ALIST
, n.1.
One who teaches the duties of life, or a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties.2.
One who practices moral duties; a mere moral person.Definition 2024
moralist
moralist
English
Noun
moralist (plural moralists)
- (pejorative) One who drives all decisions on perceived morals, especially one who enforces them with censorship.
- (obsolete) A teacher of morals.