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English
Etymology
moral + -ist
Noun
moralist (plural moralists)
- (derogatory) One who bases all decisions on perceived morals, especially one who enforces them with censorship.
- A teacher of morals; a person who studies morality; a moral philosopher.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC: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!
Translations
one driven by perceived morals
Anagrams
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French moraliste.
Noun
moralist m (plural moraliști)
- moralist
Declension
Swedish
Noun
moralist c
- (often derogatory) a person trying to influence others towards moral behavior (according to themselves), a moralist
Declension
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