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Meanings of moralist in English

Someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms.

Philosopher or theologian who works in moralism or morality.

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Examples for "disciplinarian"
Examples for "disciplinarian"
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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
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 moralist in English
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
6
But why do I address myself like this to the average moralist?
Memoirs of My Dead Life
7
But Smith was, until the end of his life, an 18th-century moralist.
The Guardian
8
She is a moralist, but not, as you imply, a narrow one.
Roderick Hudson
9
Added to the punctilio of the martinet was the rigor of the moralist.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 / A Magazine...
10
He was a moralist in the same sense in which nature is one.
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
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The disparities of fortune and the signs of depravity will impress the moralist.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 / A Mag...
12
There must be the moralist in the satirist if satire is to strike.
Miscellaneous Prose
13
The Christian works from the center, the moralist from the circumference.
Natural Law in the Spiritual World
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The whole difference between the Christian and the moralist lies here.
Natural Law in the Spiritual World
15
To the insular cynic and the insular moralist they offer an equal opportunity.
Howards End
16
But Mr. Graham has little of the prophet or the moralist about him.
Old and New Masters
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