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Meanings of disciplinarian in English

Someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms.

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Examples for "moralist"
Examples for "moralist"
1
This exactly confirms the judicious observation of the excellent moralist and poet:
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 05 / ...
2
This question, too, the church, the state and the moralist must answer.
Woman and the New Race
3
He is spiritually hard, hates the sap-head, the agitator, the simple-hearted moralist.
Children of the Market Place
4
The letters also reveal that he has always been a covert moralist.
The Irish Times
5
So said Prosper galloping to Prosper on his feet, the late moralist.
The Forest Lovers
1
He was a martinet; he knew it; he gloried on the distinction.
South Wind
2
The requisite discipline is kept up, but not in the martinet style.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1
3
And Miss Blink the mild is changed for Lady Baldock the martinet.
Phineas Finn / The Irish Member
4
The colonel was something of a martinet, but he was justice incarnate.
The Making Of A Novelist / An Experiment In Autobiography
5
He was a perfect martinet; a prim, precise, black-stock'd, military, Miss Nancy.
Captain Canot; Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
Usage of disciplinarian in English
1
She was a good disciplinarian; she organised the whole thing remarkably well.
Agahta christie: an autobiography
2
She was always in motion, a whirlwind of energy, the family disciplinarian.
Hero: the life and legend of lawrence of arabia
3
The Lieutenant-Governor at that time was General Peter Hunter a rigid disciplinarian.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920
4
Her prim boast and pride was that she was a strict disciplinarian.
Andy the Acrobat / Or, Out with the Greatest Show on Earth
5
Your mother is not so good a disciplinarian as I could wish.
Holiday Stories for Young People
6
Scammel was a brave and accomplished officer, and eminent as a disciplinarian.
Memoirs of General Lafayette / With an Account of His Visit to A...
7
This is a clear case of a disciplinarian suffering from temporary derangement.
The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions; Or, Joints In Ou...
8
But Pastor Rick isn't the whip-cracking disciplinarian I expected him to be.
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest ...
9
He was severe as a disciplinarian, and not beloved by many men.
Now It Can Be Told
10
Lieutenant Elmsley, although by no means a negligent officer, was no disciplinarian.
Hardscrabble; or, the fall of Chicago: a tale of Indian warfare
11
He is a large, rosy-cheeked, handsome, affable man, and a good disciplinarian.
The Citizen-Soldier / or, Memoirs of a Volunteer
12
He'd have to endure another year of disciplinarian torture in Mrs. Maddon's class.
Anthill: a novel
13
As a disciplinarian he was foremost in Spain, perhaps in Europe.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 13: 1567, part II
14
Power had the reputation of being even more of a disciplinarian than LeMay.
One minute to midnight: kennedy, khrushchev, and castro on the b...
15
He is the strictest disciplinarian between this and the North Pole.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1...
16
Love is the great disciplinarian, the supreme harmonizer, the true peacemaker.
Pushing to the Front
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