moralist
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| —n | |
| 1. | a person who seeks to regulate the morals of others or to imbue others with a sense of morality |
| 2. | a person who lives in accordance with moral principles |
| 3. | a philosopher who is concerned with casuistic discussions of right action, or who seeks a general characterization of right action, often contrasted with a moral philosopher whose concern is with general philosophical questions about ethics |
| moral'istic | |
| —adj | |
| moral'istically | |
| —adv | |
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Example sentences
He was a moralist who did not parade his moral, but who used it as the sustaining skeleton of his narrative.
The moralist will, of course, perceive that the forced reduction of their outward actions to uniformity does.
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