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moralist|ˈmɒrəlɪst|
[f. moral + -ist. Cf. F. moraliste.]
1. One who practises morality.
1621Bp. Hall Heaven upon Earth iii. Wks. (1625) 75 The wisest and most resolute Moralist that euer was, lookt pale when he should taste of his Hemlocke. 1750Gray Elegy 84 And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 1836Hor. Smith Tin Trump., Advice, That man must be a sturdy moralist, who does not love his own judgment better than the interest of his neighbours. 1874H. R. Reynolds John Bapt. i. §6. 54 A certain man, good, virtuous..an uncompromising moralist, acquired great influence over the people.
2. A teacher or student of morals; a moral philosopher. intuitive moralist: see intuitive a. 6.
a1639Wotton in Reliq. (1651) 321 Nature surely (if she be well studied) is the best Moralist. 1661Boyle Style of Script. 116 Too many of our Moralists write, as if they thought Virtue could be taught as easily..as Grammar. 1736Butler Anal. ii. v. Wks. 1874 I. 215 Heathen moralists thought the present state to be a state of punishment. 1770Goldsm. Bolingbroke Wks. (Globe) 468/2 As a moralist..Lord Bolingbroke..seems to have done nothing; but as a political writer few can equal..him. 1821Byron Juan iii. lxiv, Soft Persian sentences, in lilac letters, From poets, or the moralists, their betters. 1869[see intuitive a. 6]. 1876L. Stephen Eng. Th. in 18th C. I. iii. iii. 125 Clarke, though an intuitive moralist, is by no means inclined to dispense with hell. Ibid. II. ix. 2 Hobbes..represented the evil principle to moralists as well as to theologians.
3. One who lives by or teaches a natural system of ethics; a merely moral man.
1649Hammond Chr. Obligations, etc. 135 The Love (in the Moralist of vertue, but in the Christian) of God himself. a1716South Serm. (1744) VII. 286 How severely..do they judge of Men's Hearts? Such a Man is profane, another is carnal, and a mere Moralist. 1816A. Stewart in Mem. (1822) 326 Moralists fear that salvation is degraded by connecting it with faith alone.
4. Cambridge University. A student who is examined in the ‘Moral Sciences Tripos’. Senior Moralist: the head of the first class in this Tripos.
1866Students' Guide Univ. Cambr. 177 note, [He] obtained his Fellowship on the ground of his very high distinction as a Moralist, without having taken honours either in the Classical or Mathematical Tripos. |