moralist

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English

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Etymology

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moral +‎ -ist

Noun

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moralist (plural 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.
    • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
      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 can think!
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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French moraliste.

Noun

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moralist m (plural moraliști)

  1. moralist

Declension

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Swedish

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Noun

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moralist c

  1. (often derogatory) a person trying to influence others towards moral behavior (according to themselves), a moralist

Declension

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Declension of moralist 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative moralist moralisten moralister moralisterna
Genitive moralists moralistens moralisters moralisternas
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