moralist

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
What most of all he attacked as a moralist was the particular vice which most of all besieged him NOTE 6 Upon this principle I doubt not that we should interpret the sayings attributed to the seven wise men of Greece.

View all »
Definitions (8)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (3)

  1. noun A teacher or student of morals and moral problems.
  2. noun One who follows a system of moral principles.
  3. noun One who is unduly concerned with the morals of others.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (2)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (2)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • I'm not a moralist, and am not arguing that everyone should share my feelings about the matter at peril of being damned. —  Armed and Dangerous
  • Bertrand Russell argued that "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." —  Latest News - UPI.com
  • "A satirist is necessarily a moralist, and for all of the fun Tashlin had with the exaggerated imagery of American pop culture, he insisted on the importance of rejecting the illusions of consumerism for the reality of human emotion," writes —  GreenCine Daily
  • Not because I'm an arch-moralist, but because it's a stupid piece of trash that sends a message that would make even Hugh Hefner cringe. —  The Chronicle
  • Similarly, art may flourish in spite of the neglect of social and individual well-being, so that the pleadings of the moral advocate seem irrelevant; but this is possible only because the social order is already established, and the personality formed, according to the very principles which the moralist is announcing. —  The Moral Economy
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 87 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. = French moraliste = Spanish Portuguese Italian moralista; as moral + -ist.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/ˈmɑrəlɪst/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a month.

Recently looked up

chuckle-headed · thred · unda · nihility · exploration

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

qualms · poofter · oh for heaven's sake · embodies · silence