Search Result for "moralist":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a philosopher who specializes in morals and moral problems;

2. someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms;
[syn: martinet, disciplinarian, moralist]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Moralist \Mor"al*ist\, n. [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.
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   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.
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            The love (in the moralist of virtue, but in the
            Christian) of God himself.            --Hammond.
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