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moralist

noun moralists

  1. derogatory One who bases all decisions on perceived morals, especially one who enforces them with censorship.
  2. 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

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noun one driven by perceived morals

Españolmoralista
Portuguêsmoralista
Françaismoraliste
DeutschMoralist, Moralistin
Italianomoralista
Ελληνικάηθικολόγος ithikológos

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@misc{moralist_2026,
  title = {moralist},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/moralist},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}