moralist
道德家,道德人士,道德家的,道德家的人
Definitions
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- : a person who teaches or inculcates morality.
- : a philosopher concerned with the principles of morality.
- : a person who practices morality.
- : a person concerned with regulating the morals of others, as by imposing censorship.
Examples
Nixon-the-pragmatist appointed drug rehabilitation experts, not anti-drug moralists, to lead his fight.
Between a secular moralist and an ideologue, there is a softer, more human middle that Soyinka occupies.
It took the September 11 attacks for someone—Bush was always a closet moralist—to step forward.
On Monday, Crist tried to play the moralist, saying, “When people lie and steal, there is a price to pay.”
Just as in their politics, when it comes to process, Romney versus Santorum is a fight between the technocrat and the moralist.
Those who live by junk journalism, the moralist in me proclaims, shall die by junk journalism.
The critical moralist pauses before the formidable array of the entire social world, civilized and savage.
He was not a dialectician, but a moralist, and as such takes the highest ground of all the old inquirers after truth.
Surely the most strict moralist would confess, that I was released from my engagements!
But he was always essentially a moralist, whose business 255 was to find a practical, popular, effective rule of conduct.
Here the unfortunate Savage has held his intellectual "noctes" and enlivened the old moralist with his mad philosophy.