a philosopher who specializes in morals and moral problems
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someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
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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.
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.
The love (in the moralist of virtue, but in the Christian) of God himself. --Hammond.
It is not necessary not be a moralist, nor to read leading articles in British newspapers to know that this is not love.
It is a dispensation allowed him in the grim American media because he presents himself as a moralist, and that he is but in strictly contemporary terms.
A piece about the 19th-century moralist Anthony Comstock, it is interesting that it was the one work that employed avantgarde techniques such as men playing women and vice versa.
The London Times once called Taki a moralist posing in the guise of a gossip writer.