moralist
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- noun
- /ˈmɔːrəlɪst/
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moralista
- The teacher was known as a moralist, often discussing the importance of honesty and integrity in class.
- Christian moralists
- contemporary moralists
- academic moralists
Today's moralists agree that ethics is a subjective issue, right?
- Today's moralists agree that ethics is a subjective issue, right?
- But none of it possesses the kind of necessity that metaphysicians and moralists have been ascribing to it.
- It has not been properly investigated by moralists, though it's everywhere recognized in real life.
Examples
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However, other Catholic moralists did not agree with him.
Academic text (2001) -
A social leader without an official position, a public moralist, a person of supposed rectitude.
Fiction book (1998) -
In this case, the moralist must make the case for such choice on scientific grounds.
Academic text (1990) -
And I teach and constantly go back to the British moralist for inspiration and insight.
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Academic moralists frequently read their own preferences into their accounts of the content of morality.
Academic text (2000) -
Writers on children's issues in the 19th century tended to be moralists, not too concerned with practical daily concerns.
Academic text (1996) -
Patterson is right to note that the progressives were still moralists in their own way.
Academic text (1991) -
This is the theme of every great moralist, from Spinoza to Kant to Freud.
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At last we had a true theologian, a moralist who'd show the town the road to salvation.
Fiction book (1994) -
Deeply indebted to the work of the great Catholic moralist and jurisprudence scholar John Noonan.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
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7.9
A person who studies right and wrong and gives advice about moral choices
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6.3
A person who often tells others what is right or wrong
A philosopher who studies what is right and wrong
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Etymology
Moralist comes from moral, a word that originally meant 'customs' or usual behavior, so picture someone who studies and explains the rules people use to live together. That's why a moralist is a person who teaches or promotes ideas about 'right and wrong'.