mor·al·ist /-lɪst/
道德家,道學者,倫理學者
Mor·al·ist, n.
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.
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.
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moralist
n 1: a philosopher who specializes in morals and moral problems
2: someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
[syn: martinet, disciplinarian]