Dictionary

moralist en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-der. Proto-Italic *mōs Latin mōs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin mōrālis Old French moralbor. Middle English moral English moral Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English moralist From moral + -ist.

Meanings

1. (derogatory) One who bases all decisions on perceived morals, especially one who enforces them with censorship.
2. A teacher of morals; a person who studies morality; a moral philosopher.
   • What must the old man have felt as, in ghastly terrifying solitude, by the light of one lamp feebly illuminating a little space of gloom, he in a few brief lines daubed the history of his nation's death upon the cavern wall? What a subject for the moralist, or the painter, or indeed for any one who can think! 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

Forms

Deriveds

antimoralist

Relateds

morality · morals · moralistic · moralism

Translations (24)

fr moraliste (one driven by perceived morals) · de Moralistin (one driven by perceived morals) · kk моралист (one driven by perceived morals) · de Moralist (one driven by perceived morals) · cs moralista (one driven by perceived morals) · gl moralista (one driven by perceived morals) · nl moralist (one driven by perceived morals) · pt moralista (one driven by perceived morals) · ca moralista (one driven by perceived morals) · kk моральшы (one driven by perceived morals) · it moralista (one driven by perceived morals) · hu erkölcscsősz (one driven by perceived morals) · lv morālists (one driven by perceived morals) · es moralista (one driven by perceived morals) · hu moralista (one driven by perceived morals) · pl moralista (one driven by perceived morals) · pl moralistka (one driven by perceived morals) · fi moralisti (one driven by perceived morals) · cs mravokárce (one driven by perceived morals) · ceb moralista (one driven by perceived morals) · bg моралист (one driven by perceived morals) · el ηθικολόγος (one driven by perceived morals) · lv morāliste (one driven by perceived morals) · tr ahlakçı (one driven by perceived morals)