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n. A teacher or student of morals and moral problems.

n. One who follows a system of moral principles.

n. One who is unduly concerned with the morals of others.

n. One who drives all decisions on perceived morals, especially one who enforces them with censorship.

n. A teacher of morals.

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.

n. One who teaches morals; a writer or lecturer on ethics; one who inculcates moral duties.

n. One who practises moral as distinguished from religious duties; a merely moral as distinguished from a religious person.

n. someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms

n. a philosopher who specializes in morals and moral problems

"The moralist is the writer who has a "moral design" on literature -- who sees it as an forum for moral discourse more than as an aesthetic form -- or who wishes to create a moral "design" in works of fiction or poetry in the guise of, or in substitution for, aesthetic design."

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