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Webster 1913 Edition
Moralist
Mor′al-ist
,Noun.
[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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Moralist
MOR'ALIST
, n.1.
One who teaches the duties of life, or a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties.2.
One who practices moral duties; a mere moral person.