Moralist
['mɒr(ə)lɪst] or ['mɔrəlɪst]
Definition
(noun.) a philosopher who specializes in morals and moral problems.
Typed by Lillian--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
Checker: Rene
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Moral philosopher.
Typist: Sean
Examples
- The satisfaction derived from this act was all that the most ardent moralist could have desired. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Seneca was a Stoic, as Lucretius was an Epicurean, moralist. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- They hate shams and the watering of goods on a more trustworthy basis than the mere routine moralist. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But the old moralist eased him by saying serenely: Well, well, young men will be young men. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I wondered why moralists call this world a dreary wilderness: for me it blossomed like a rose. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Some moralists account for all the sentiments of virtue by this sense. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- They extend not beyond a mistake of fact, which moralists have not generally supposed criminal, as being perfectly involuntary. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Some notorious carpers and squeamish moralists might be sulky with Lord Steyne, but they were glad enough to come when he asked them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I appeal to moralists and sages. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The older moralists, the taboo philosophers believed that the desires themselves were inherently evil. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Wilhelmina