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Moralist
noun
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Noun
- 1 One who bases all decisions on perceived morals, especially one who enforces them with censorship. derogatory
- 2 someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms wordnet
- 3 A teacher of morals; a person who studies morality; a moral philosopher.
"What must the old man have felt as, in ghastly terrifying solitude, by the light of one lamp feebly illuminating a little space of gloom, he in a few brief lines daubed the history of his nation's death upon the cavern wall? What a subject for the moralist, or the painter, or indeed for any one who can think!"
- 4 a philosopher who specializes in morals and moral problems wordnet
Etymology
From moral + -ist.
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