Usually means: Advocate for principles of right conduct.
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  1. moralist: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. moralist: Merriam-Webster
  3. moralist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. moralist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. moralist: Collins English Dictionary
  6. moralist: Vocabulary.com
  7. Moralist, moralist: Wordnik
  8. moralist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. moralist: Wiktionary
  10. moralist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. moralist: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. moralist: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Moralist, moralist: Dictionary.com
  14. Moralist (disambiguation), The Moralist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Moralist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. moralist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. moralist: Rhymezone
  18. Moralist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. moralist: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Moralist: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. moralist: FreeDictionary.org
  22. moralist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. moralist: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. moralist: Legal dictionary

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  1. moralist: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  (derogatory) One who bases all decisions on perceived morals, especially one who enforces them with censorship.
▸ noun:  A teacher of morals; a person who studies morality; a moral philosopher.

Similar:
martinet, disciplinarian, antimoralist, immoralist, moral police, censorist, grundy, amoralist, ethicist, do-gooder, more...

Opposite:
immoralist, amoralist, libertine

Types:
prude, puritan, moralizer, holier-than-thou, more...

Adjectives:
great, sternest, christian, rigid, strict, french, practical, english, mere, severe, rustic

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Similar:
martinet, disciplinarian, antimoralist, immoralist, moral police, censorist, grundy, amoralist, ethicist, do-gooder, more...

Opposite:
immoralist, amoralist, libertine

Types:
prude, puritan, moralizer, holier-than-thou, more...

Adjectives:
great, sternest, christian, rigid, strict, french, practical, english, mere, severe, rustic

Colors:
    black,     white,     gray,     burgundy,     forest green, more...



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