Moralist

noun

noun ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who bases all decisions on perceived morals, especially one who enforces them with censorship. derogatory
  2. 2
    someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    a philosopher who specializes in morals and moral problems wordnet

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Example

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"He liked food and wine and conversation. He was a moralist, but not a solemn or humorless man in the least."

Etymology

From moral + -ist.

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