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单词 moralist
释义 mor·al·ist
\-_lə̇st\ noun
(-s)
1. : one who leads a moral life
 < a moralist who practices what he preaches >
2. : a teacher or student of morals : a thinker or writer concerned with moral principles and problems
 < was attracted particularly by the great classical moralists, and found in their ethical teaching inspiration and instruction — A.C.McGiffert >
 < nowadays it is … far harder to be a moralist of any true simplicity of spirit — Lionel Trilling >
 < like all good writers, a moralist at bottom — Bernard Kalb >
3. : one who is concerned to regulate the morals of others
 < moralists looked upon it as a lewd distraction that would take the mind off work — Lewis Mumford >
 < once the moralist … becomes the censor of art, with power to enforce his judgments, art is seriously jeopardized — Hunter Mead >
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